skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not as much true as it could be, with the offerings I'm aware of (AWS OpenSearch, Elasti, Co's own cloud), and having used OpenSearch more extensively, you're still basically fully responsible for managing the cluster topology and the "data" node type is what handles storage and the important compute for search. If you need more storage you'll have to bump the EBS volume sizes on a new cluster and then do replication, or add a new node to the existing cluster and rebalance your data which are both very expensive operations. If you need more compute you're stuck with adding more storage regardless, but you can at least limit how much.

This, absolutely. I'll add that I once tried to look at the Elasti.co offer for an ELK solution that could handle the logs we are currently managing internally (on EC2 managed by us with some automation), and you basically had to specify all the details of the topology to get a quote. It was basically a layer on top of AWS Cost Calculator with their margin baked in.

No way you can tell them "I send on average X bytes/day, I want a quick answer for Y days and a slower answer for Z days and a global retention of XY days" and get a "you will pay aprox NNN dollars/month in the HA config, MMM in the non-HA config"
Every single American should be able to get a free, permanent email account through our Postal Service!

We shouldn't have to rely on Gmail for what may be the only way to get information/apply for on basic government services!
I always recommend a easy to remember sentence as a password.

with spaces, punctuation, some sort of capilatiozation scheme (cap every last letter, or every other ,etc) and throw a number in there.

lot easier to remember than 32 random bits.

purposely misspelling something, adding spaces, and your own cap scheme make it a secure password.
Thoughtful article, but not a new phenomenon. Consider the Hawking-Preskill wager regarding black hole information. The MIT Senior prank, Grievance-studies affair, or Sokal are another place where smart people do fun things. It would seem though that the endgame is wildly different though for this type of fun, where the incident social contract implies limited harm. This sort of bandwagoning which society has been pigeonholed into (betting is illegal, pranks are a cybersecurity risk) has wildly different material outcomes.

Many places a proposition can be called into question, humans do so through whatever play they're allowed.
Being in a simulation doesn't necessarily imply that you're there by choice.
I have been writing fiction for as long as I could hold a pen and always wanted to be a writer. But then computers happened and getting an interesting job was as easy for me as snapping my fingers.

In my early thirties I realized that unless I did something drastic, I was never going to be a writer. So I enrolled in a four year creative writing course. (Creative writing is not routinely taught in college here.) The place had a tough selection policy and was run by established writers with editors and publishers. It is probably the best place in my country to build a network and get noticed.

I did get indeed noticed and published a few short stories in a reputable magazine. Then the publisher (which is one of the most prestigious in the country) had a sit-down with me and told me they really liked my work but they wanted to see something more substantial, which is thinly veiled code for a novel. It was a come-on as big as they come in the literary world. And I fucked it up. I never took them up on their offer. I did not even try and write that book.

After a while my contacts dried up and the window of opportunity closed. Nowadays when I send something to that particular publisher it ends up in the slush pile of uninvited manuscripts (of which they receive over a thousand yearly). I don't blame them, but I do regret it.
Using a crossword prompt, guess the word. Would love any feedback on the game, or ideas for variations.
> you have to ask me for an invitation and I’m not going to give you one if I think you’re going to be a problem.

How do you vet applicants? Depending on the theme of the site, this seems like it might range from easy (gardening, cooking, ...) to excruciating (politics, medical).
a related commentary on this:

There Are All Sorts Of Problems With Ruling That YouTube Ripping Tool May Violate Copyright Law

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33119847
This is still a poor article. If that's really the point, then they should have focused on many other points related to covenants and not confused that point by including people who were not under covenants. They could also tell us what their solution is (make associations illegal?). Or are the just complaining without any solution or even a salient argument.
Wait until OP hears about FIFA World Cup viewership.
OK, sure. The WAF does ingress filtering though. It's useful, and ingress filtering is what we were talking about.

In my architecture, the same services also perform egress filtering. It's also useful, but not the WAF or the topic of conversation.

I think people get upset about the term "WAF". It's just a new label for the longstanding practice of upper-layer ingress filtering (i.e. DPI and reverse-proxy filtering). But it's often a dedicated service now, so it needs a name of some kind.

A poorly-configured WAF breaks things, just like a poorly-configured (any other network service).
Now that you mention it, the resemblance is pretty clear. I also have to admit that I agree that we probably are stuck with it for the future. There are languages I think much more highly of that compile to WASM, and that's a technique that I plan to use and that I anticipate gaining traction. But there's just so much JS around.
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Because, and you may not know this, some people have standards they live by. They like "nice things". And there's large groups of them that feel this way and want to ensure they don't attract an antisocial person that has different values.

I feel like people have this really funny idea that everyone should accept them and respect them for exactly who they are and that people should respect whatever it is they want to do. This isn't true at all. Your mom and dad may, but no one else does even if we say we do.

We specifically construct social systems like private clubs, HOAs, etc to keep people out because we don't want to associate with people like them. A great thing about liberty is it allows us to freely associate which means groups of people can construct social gates which keep other people out that can't or won't meet a standard.
The above example was someone who FEARED all of their money would be garnished. Not someone who was TOLD all of the money would be garnished.

That isn't the same thing.
A high paying, cushy job in tech / FAANG with great benefits and easy work/life balance can be as much of a crutch as it is a blessing.

With your own personal situation so good, it can be too easy to just stick to the default and not chase something that's more ambitious, but perhaps also more risky as well (whatever that is). The years go by fast and eventually you start wondering if its too late (it's not).

So, have gratitude and appreciate the good situation(s) you've found yourself in, but if there's some idea or action you can't seem to forget about, go do it.
Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog
It's a pretty interesting topic on which a common intuition (n bits is less information content than log(n!), right?) fails it turns out most of the work is being done in the aggregation algorithm, not in the data entry.

Which is emblematic of the biggest problem with RCV, which is that the aggregation algorithms are too opaque to realize at a glance that the results they give are ... not as good as doing a straightforward thing.
We are building a new technology for SaaS businesses Hypergrowth.
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You will just have to embedd a live video chat widget on your website and get into live demos (with screen sharing) with your visitors through reactive or proactive calls based on your visitors highest intent to buy (visiting pricing page for example)

Sales will engage with visitors instead of making cold calls and they will turn MQL to SQL in minutes not days.

On the other hand, you can also use the video chat + cobrowsing capabilities to engage with your free users during onboarding and convert them to paid customers which will reduce your onboarding friction.

And finally support team will also have the possibility to provide instant live support with cobrowsing and session takeovers so you can reduce your churn.

In addition, we are also working on an AI Transcription feature so your agents can focus on their interlocutor, and get an automatic meeting report to integrate in their CRM or support software.

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I thought most generic computation workloads are ill-suited for GPUs. A normal web SaaS application is full of if branches and JMP instructions. Running this on GPU would slow it down, not speed it up.
just keep doing it until one of you gets tired of it.
What I mean is that it's almost impossible not to be affected if you are a city-dweller, it's a lot harder to ignore. Most will ignore it, but still acknowledge it as a problem for them. Even in a cynical and dehumanizing way.
Perhaps not immoral but kafkaesque or something - if a government support service requires an email address to be used, and the government doesn't provide the email address, there is a dependency on the market to provide such.

And if they don't give a list of "workable free email providers" then the government has failed.

Imagine the howling if you had to have an email address to vote.
The average person cannot remember a good password without some help, be it using it everywhere, writing it down, or using a password manager. Homeless individuals, on average, have many more stressors in life, much higher rates of traumatic brain injury, and a number of other factors that make their ability to remember good passwords much worse than the average person. Given this solution doesn't work for the average person, it will have even less success applied to the homeless.
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As other posters say: there is no best language for web applications. However, some languages have richer options for web programming - libraries and frameworks. Popularity also makes it's easier to find answers and tutorials. Other things to consider: ease of deployment, performance.

It's fine to use a programming language not normally known for web programming. Just remember if web-related libraries and documentation doesn't exist, you will need to write them yourself.
qbittorrent on Linux has a crazy memory leak that makes it use more than 1gb of memory very fast and possibly. I had to stop using it for quite a few months. I refonwloaded it recently and it wasn't fixed.
In many cases I think it has more to do with having to jump through a bunch of hoops with no assurance of what the outcome will be.

Another person needed an ID. In order to apply for the ID they needed a birth certificate. In order to apply for it they had to fill out the application, mail it with money, and then have a permanent place to have the birth certificate mailed an unknown amount of time later. At which point they then needed to apply for the ID and go through that process.
IMO the rightsholder of a a creative work publishing the work with digital restrictions should make it ineligible for copyright protection, as the requisite equity that justifies copyright protection has not been met - the published work won't eventually become part of the public domain. This should also include any restrictive transformation of a creative work (eg compiling source->binary) unless the original creative work has been published or escrowed.

Also, copyright should be limited to a maximum of 10-20 years. Of course these things will never happen politically, so pirate away. The real problems highlighted by the youtube-dl saga are the general reliance on centralized Github and the fact that most users' access to computing is mediated by centrally-controlled apps.
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Ask HN: Is it worth diving deep into React Native?
I've been using React Native professionally for about a year now, and I work at a startup. I think it's a good tool to get something out quickly for both platforms, especially when the app is relatively simple (think a heavy CRUD app)
I've reached a point where I'm considering if it's worth spending time digging deeper and learning more about React Native (especially with the new architecture and fabric) or just diving into native app development
For example, I see more and more companies move away from frameworks like React Native and just go the native route once the app is sufficiently large/complex
I've seen experienced engineers tweet around the same (RN is good when you need to prototype and get something out fast, but when you have a big enough user base and a solid, verified product, you will inevitably bite the bullet and switch to native)

So the question is basically around the tradeoff - is it worth spending more time and mastering React Native, or just accept the fact that bigger companies and refined products prefer native apps and spend my energy there? I feel like most job postings that use RN are also smaller companies/startups, so I'm thinking if this will limit my professional opportunities in the future as well?
And there is a bit more modern take in the form of ZV-1.
Yes, but is he a talented bullshitter or an accomplished one?
This was Alan Watts' final religion actually; literally that.
Going to try and repost this comment because from what I can tell it was shadow banned, maybe for use of a word that triggered a filter?

Most of these I have made peace with and addressed in my life now, but historically, these have been my biggest regrets:

Becoming addicted to prngrfy and mstrbtion in my early teens and staying addicted throughout my 20s. I have been sober for years now, and for me, it was only possible through working the SLAA[1] program. I never actually knew it existed until a therapist suggested it to me; I wish it had been easier to find, but unfortunately whenever I would search for resources in overcoming prngrphy addiction, I would only ever really find places like the big sub with "astronauts".

On the one hand, I have spent more than half of my life addicted to prngrfy. On the other hand, I now have the gift of potentially being able to spend more than half of my time on this earth sober. The glass is definitely half full for me on this one.

Not learning how to dance until my 30s. I was once made fun of for dancing at a party as a young child (<5yo maybe) by my mother and a friend of hers, and that led to me being completely terrified of dancing until last year. I would get very angry and ashamed whenever I was in a situation where dancing was involved, and just generally feel not-good and attacked whenever somebody who loved me wanted to dance with me. I picked up swing dancing last year and now dancing is one of the most joyous activities in my life, and you can usually find me out cutting a rug on a Wednesday night.[2]

Being a lousy big brother to my one younger brother. This one probably hurts me the most and I still have not been able to forgive myself for it. Funnily enough, my younger brother loves me very much and we have a good relationship now, but when I think about all the ways I failed him when we were younger I just lose it emotionally. Working on this in therapy currently.

Not taking care of my body in my teenage years and 20s, and especially wasting all that free extra T[3] when I was going through puberty. I wish I could go back in time and drag myself to the gym when I first hit puberty! I do a wide range of physical activities now including lifting and I have a body and the kind of mass I never would have dreamed of before, but sometimes I like to imagine what I would have looked like now if I had started 20 years ago. Oh well, I can always see what I look like in 20 years' time!

[1]: My stubborn younger self would have written this due to the vaguely religious overtones of the 12 steps, but I'm glad that as a still-non-religious adult I was able to get out of my own way on this one and just focus on doing what I needed to do to get better

[2]: This is also how I found probably my most important adult friend group after the age of 30!

[3]: I will probably hop on TRT when I'm older and my T levels go down, so maybe I will get to experience something like that later in my life after all
It's absolutely noticeable, even obvious, but people choose to not see it.
Yes, and https://halide.cam/ is an excellent choice if you want more than the native RAW mode offers.

I only shoot RAW, it does require post-processing to get social media looking photos if that's your bag. (Normies want the pop, not the accuracy; nice it has both.)
Gotta say these are some gorgeous release notes.
Actually the data was already stored in the US as required by US law. The deal with Oracle is to guarantee the access is limited.
Is that really your only takeaway here? Feels like a parody of HN comments. It could be any other equivalent, I don't know. Even if it's KaiOS the homeless probably have other things on their mind than the CCP or whatever.
> At each and every point in my life, I was working with the information I had at my disposal, each information having its own "weight" in my mind.

This. You play the hand you're dealt — and the hand you're dealt includes your "wiring" (brain anatomy, brain chemistry, etc.) and your "programming" (past experiences, etc.). And you try to learn what you can.

(Warning — tangent:) It all contributes to what I've come to think of as The Great Project [0] of helping to build a universe — where our Conway Game of Life moves (or our Boyd OODA Loop moves, if you prefer) are something like the following:

1. Aspire: Imagine some way in which the world could and should be different than (our mental model of) what it currently is.

2. Act — and while doing so: (A) remain open to new evidence and insights; and (B) for purely pragmatic reasons, seek the best for others as we do for ourselves (in part, because to a certain extent we all operate behind a Rawlsian veil of ignorance).

3. Learn: Update the mental model of what the world is, and also the mental model of what the world "should" be.

4. Repeat.

[0] https://www.questioningchristian.com/2006/06/metanarratives_...
sheesh, you're right. They're working on it, and it's, uh, no worse than Python, but yeah I don't think it quite counts as a compiled language yet. Thanks for the heads up.
This is the most obvious reason for why government procurement and contracting costs are so high.

US/Canada governments have simply dissolved all in house experience. Which means they have no competent and experienced people who can actually evaluate contract bids. But further, they don't have people in-house with either the experience, competence, or power to make agreed upon changes to contracts on the fly.

And because the contracts are so set in stone, that means even if all the bidders are operating completely ethically, they need to pad their margins significantly to account for anything unexpected. But in reality many bidders are not operating ethically and are able to use a lot of the necessary features of a government bidding process (clearly outlined and transparent contracts with very little subjective input) to maximize their revenue and minimize their output.
And Linus is Finnish!
> Has he ever, at any point in his long political career, shown any concern whatsoever for the plight of non-violent minor drug offenders until five minutes ago

February 2021: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_policy_of_the_Joe_Bid...
AI as it stands is a massive legal liability for companies as it interpolates between plagiarised images.

The image gen projects are extremely unethical and immoral IMO as they rely on scraped data created by artists to ‘train’.
How would I let my pets run around in the garden? Where do I put my wood fired pizza oven? How do I teach my kids how to grow potatoes and build things? Where do I put the koi pond?

There is perhaps some platonic ideal of an apartment where you can live a similar quality of life to a house. But in the reality that we actually live in currently, living in a house usually has a much better quality of life so it's natural that people would prefer it.
Not getting a CS/engineering degree is my biggest regret. I would go back and get an engineering degree. I have 20 years of experience and I am a CTO. But even today CTO level openings need a CS/engineering degree from a brand name school. My resume won't make it past automated filters at top companies. When people say education and degrees don't matter, it just fills me with rage and regret.
Prior to the mid-1990's, blanking the screen simply meant painting the screen black in software. Later video cards would allow you to turn off the video signal and monitors would blank if they lost the signal. However, this would only work if both ends supported power saving modes. Otherwise the electronics (including the picture tube) for the monitor would operate normally. The only other option was to turn off the monitor manually or, on machines with an integrated monitor, to turn the brightness down.

If the monitor is going to be on anyway, why wouldn't people want to display something interesting on it?
One of the worst cases of this that I've seen recently is TP-Link's Tapo, which does seem to support ONVIF to a usable extent, but it is impossible to set up the camera or move it to a different wifi network without using their stupid mobile app that requires a cloud account. It works fine offline after that.
We're not talking about merely "visiting" a public website.
Please explain detail and context further. Do you mean a mentorship kind of relationship?
If we ignore PNaCL and CrossBridge.

As for how sound the type system is in the face of attacks at the Flash, ActiveX and Java applets scale, it remains to be seen, although there are already some USENIX papers slowly coming up regarding WebAssembly actual security.
Authy recovery requires you to have access to the same phone number when you want to restore to a new device.
> There's no corruption in doing popular things that can help get people in your party elected.

What a ridiculous statement. Go study some philosophy.
American invention from the “heroic age” to the system-building era
> The telegraph effectively killed many newspapers as everyone moved to newspapers to printed national and global news

Can you confirm there's a typo in here? Do you mean "moved FROM LOCAL newspapers to"?
I definitely vividly remember needing it a few years ago, but right now I can try to sign up and it says "Mobile Number (optional)" (Maybe that's based on some security heuristics).
It's no different than people not investing in their 401k and getting the free match because they're worried about paying "penalties" when they take it back out. My employer has a 50% match and early withdrawal penalty is only 10% and yet, people still refuse to do it.
Meta’s flagship metaverse app is too buggy and employees are barely using it
Is there anything to prevent a person/group from setting up a Mastadon instance with a charge to cover hosting, admin, & support costs (something like businesses charging for service on Open Source software support)? This could both make it more stable and sustainable and be a barrier to bots/trolls.
Mostly discord as far as I can see. There's no single place, though.