skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they practically never go down. And if they do, most of the world is down too, so you're not alone.

I agree with the second part - users are more likely to forgive an outage when Netflix is down as well. However, AWS is not as stable as I'd like. It seems the days of targeting 5 9's (99.999%) uptime are long gone. If you have high availability requirements, the cloud providers are a convenient way to get access to multiple datacenters. But, you absolutely must have cross-region failover. Amazon's products and datacenters only have "pretty good" uptime, and I've found their functional uptime is lower than advertised. When a network problem causes Lambda to become unusably impaired, Amazon still considers Lambda to be available.
I find that genuinely fascinating from an ethical standpoint.

What if the people really believe spells work? Does it matter that they don't? Is it just the ephemeral nature of spells? What if I were to ship a complete spell in a bottle to the person?

(not to be too much of an edgelord) What about religious iconography or religious paraphernalia? I would argue that anything related to that is just a more accepted version of magic spells. Would prayer be banned?
No one claims a 2M+ death toll in Iraq, as far as I can tell.
The FBI's McGonigal Labyrinth
What do they look like?

Is it this system? It sounds horrific. https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/uk-supermarket-...
Americans need strange third party apps to do basic operations like this, which often makes their opinions on EU financial sector confusing
Milli uses unsafe for what it's worth so it's not as safe as you may think.

I do assume any post with "written in rust" does better on hacker news.
With authoritarian regimes, having someone who's not a representative of the regime doing anything to help others is often seen as a threat to the authority of the government.
I’ve come to see it this way:

If a set of users are using a product only because it is built in X, that user base is most likely the early adopter audience for X and it dangerously masks whether that product has product-market fit or not.

So if a product markets itself as built in X, it is appealing to early adopters of X.

The long-tail of users on the other hand, care more about what painful problem the product is solving for them.

Now, some of the features of X might provide benefits to end users, but the long tail of users care more about those benefits they get rather than the fact that X provides those benefits, and that the product uses X.
I was watching... meh all the time and then suddenly it goes blank and disappears. Like, wtf Google. After yesterday's Microsoft presentation, this was such an underwhelming event.

And it gets real tiring on how much Google tries to create an idea on how advanced their AI is.. (and it might be) but the fact is, nobody can access it or try it. So until we actually are able to put our hands on something, I'm calling vaporware. At least with OpenAI we get to experiment and build actual products with it.
We've had YARA Rules in cyber-security for abit, will be interested to try this out as it seems more human focused.
I would say 3 people have contributed significantly.

1) Indie dev - build a first version of the game in Unity. She is responsible for the look&feel of the gameplay
2) Fiver person 1 - who made the very crude js version of the player which I refactored into final version.
3) Fiver person 2 - who helped me with the design of the game menu.

Other than that I have hired some other designers on fiverr, whos designs I didn't end up using, several testers and reviewers.

I also asked all friends and family to try it out and I have observed if they can figure out what the game is about without any hints.

Nothing really unexpected happened in regards to working with people.
Google AI chatbot Bard offers inaccurate information in company ad
Do you still get fulltime employment benefits? That seems to be the sticking point with many companies, as fulltime and parttime employees are treated, and cost, different, even if salary is prorated.
Oh yeah for sure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor
Tell me you don't know what a Commonwealth of Independent States is, without telling me.

Putin doesn't want a "new USSR". He wants a Commonwealth. If its good for Brits and Canucks and Aussies and Kiwi's, it'll work for the rest of the world too ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_St...

Its the USA that doesn't want to see this commonwealth form and become economically viable as a trading partner with the EU, because not only would it indeed represent an economic bloc that would be overwhelming for the US' intelligence services to corrupt, and usurp .. as they are wont to do .. it'd also be a superpower that even China couldn't handle.

Which is why the USA is doing everything it can (Ukraine coup) to ensure this unity never happens.
Governing whose products are cooperative and defective within the market seems like a hard problem, and the same problem that forum moderators have, but mostly because the people doing it are adopting the wrong principles. If a defective participant can make an appeal to external/exogenous market principles, there's nothing the regulator can do. The artists markets (and forums) that do thrive are the ones ruled by direct curation to enforce sanctions on defective and noncooperative parties.

This is a general problem with any artisanal market, where artists who have made an investment in their craft attract crowds, and crowds attract opportunists who defect from the rule of cooperation that makes the artists market viable. The whole principle of competition is that it's only competition if you are playing by the same rules. Imo, artist markets resemble more of a co-operate/defect game theory model than a simple economic market competition model. In an artisanal market, the co-operation rules are unfortunately, tacit, and rubes will reward the honest players and defective/dishonest ones alike.

That it sucks implies there is an opportunity, likely for a federated curation model that looks more like a department store than the landfills of etsy and amazon.

Honest signals of quality and cooperation are necessarily discriminatory, and dishonest/defective parties (ones who do not cooperate) have the aggregate effect of increasing these signalling costs on quality goods to where the signalling out-prices its utility.

Regulation comes into play when dishonest parties increase the signalling costs so much that it destroys the market for the products, and parties have to decide whether the regulatory/moderation costs are lower than the signalling costs, or to abandon the market altogether, which in the case of Etsy, they often do. This is why Etsy is full of scammy junk. They have a curation and moderation problem they are not equipped to solve.

Ironically, what makes curation and moderation good is that it doesn't scale well at all, even negatively, but that's what makes it scarce and valuable - unlike anything available on Etsy. Maybe that's the lesson.
The training I got as a lowly ppl, was that a takeoff clearance meant that the runway was yours to do with as you pleased within reason. If the southwest crew needed to sit on the runway for a few moments getting setup they had permission to do it. Their job is to follow atc directions, which they absolutely did.

If the controller wanted you to do an immediate takeoff they normally make damn sure that you are able and you know the context. At least in my experience mixing it up with jet traffic at Boeing field.

Something like: “Southwest xxx cleared for immediate takeoff, you have a FedEx heavy on 3 mile final”

To the pilot that is saying: you can go, but you only have 90 seconds or so.
It seems to me that CBDCs cut out a lot of the friction that currently prevents people from moving towards more interesting and decentralized payment infrastructure.

Any system backed by math seems to me to be strictly better than any system which is not backed by math. Legacy banking infrastructure is a dangerous mess, and needs to die. To me, the acceptance of CBDCs is an admission that the old ways are failing, and a crypto backed economy is the future. CBDCs will still need to compete with crypto assets already in existence, but at least now everything can speak the same language.
I’ve found that there are a confluence of factors that make “built in rust” important to me.

First of all, Rust is relatively new so this tells me that the codebase is likely new.

Secondly, I think rust tends to attract smart people who like programs to be small and fast. Case-in-point meilisearch is a simple, single binary download.

Both of these together indicate that a project has a higher chance of being freshly written code, by smart people, that is small and fast.

Before I get a bunch of we’ll actually’s, I’m not saying these things are true 100% of the time.
People asked Elon Musk on twitter to deploy Starlink to Turkey and he said he can't because it is not approved.

I wonder why.
More than disappointing - this is terrifying - even worse than China's social credit scoring on New Zealand's Cigarette prohibition.
This would enable governments to monitor and control literally every penny you spend or recieve.
I wrote a blogpost explaining who money currently works and warning about this development.

https://www.onedb.online/blog/what_is_money
The added value of these types of service, I think, is that they're fairly well set up with their provisioning script. You're paying for this service after all and if it appears they can be easily compromised "by default" then ... there would be many problems.

If you have any more info or opinions then please do share.
Google felt stumbling repeating many previously announced AI features in other spaces or small improvements to distract that their version of conversational search is behind.

Google did not have the source links below the Bard chatbot responses. They also did not show recent news results like Bing did yesterday.

And their presenter felt stumbling at moments too and lacking confidence. And the demo phone was "stolen". So also in execution the event felt lacking...

Microsoft said in their interview with The Verge that they were working on a raw version of their new Prometheus model since mid 2022 which also shows those sources. And they showed the nice compose and website summarise conversational tool integrations for within Edge. There were no hints of integrations of Bard within Chrome. So it feels that including training time + product development time that Microsoft is at least a year ahead.
How are the noise levels while gaming? I'm very put off by jet engines, hope it doesn't sound like one.
Hi, Where are the docs for production?
I have a droplet with DO, and running a basic laravel SaaS project.
I want to give this a go, but don't want to spin up another droplet.
Android exists. Has 70% market share. Has all those native capabilities you crave.

So. Again and again I ask the same simple question: have all the things you're talking about happened there?
I am using the core (called "Milli") in a local indexer that I run on my repositories and Obsidian files. It works like a charm and I am very happy with it. Obviously that's a use case with very little traffic but just indexing my repositories folder is quite a bit of work and it does it surprisingly fast.

The only real thing I am missing is a typeahead feature.
Humanity doesn't default to greedy, but the humans who are greedy are the ones motivated to flood these market places. For every 1000 small creators hand-chiseling marble effigies there's someone who is greedy and can sell the entire catalogue of some niche factory in Guangdong. The net effect is a flooded market, despite only 1 in 1000 people being greedy.
I wonder how this would work with multiple people with the same names? I mean, I think how "right-to-be-forgotten" works if I were an EU citizen is that I can request that some article about me is removed, not that all articles referencing "William Cotton" be removed. There are tens of thousands of people named William Cotton!

Do you think filtering I/O could reference a "William Cotton" in a specific context while allowing, say, somewhat well known painter named "Will Cotton" to be included in a summary of late 20th century artists in NYC?
I would focus on a more local market. Shipping real wood furniture would be an expensive hassle anyway
All these indignant comments but nobody bothers to look up what happened since 2020:

> In a previous blog post, we quantified that upwards of 45.80% of total DNS traffic to the root servers was, at the time, the result of Chromium intranet redirection detection tests. Since then, the Chromium team has redesigned its code to disable the redirection test on Android systems and introduced a multi-state DNS interception policy that supports disabling the redirection test for desktop browsers. This functionality was released mid-November of 2020 for Android systems in Chromium 87 and, quickly thereafter, the root servers experienced a rapid decline of DNS queries.

https://blog.verisign.com/domain-names/chromiums-reduction-o...
While I disagree with your analogy -- auto makers didn't build their business by stealing the work of wheelwrights -- I agree with the conclusion that the auto is coming.
How will this work with the EU's "right to forget?" Retrain the multimilli9n dollar model each time someone sends a request?
Google will blur explicit image results for all users, requires login to disable
I work on a fairly high-end solution to this problem: works for art authentication, real estate transactions, that sort of thing.

The only way this gets fixed is through liability: if they ship you a mass-produced thing, you get your money back. But if buyers are happy with the goods (and they seem to be, generally speaking) it's hard to say anybody's been defrauded -- making window shopping boring because most of the stuff is mass produced crap is not a crime, as it were.

No harm, no foul.

As for the "illicit" products, same applies: if the buyers don't care, it's hard to make the "system" care.
Monitoring is super important++

But the nice thing about using an already resilient system like K8S is that pod crashes won't cause your customers to not be able to work and you can fix the issue in the background instead of having to throw up a status page and fix the problem immediately.

It's better to have a problem that your customers don't notice because it buys you time to figure out the issue.
My default general search is DDG. If I'm searching for hobby-related stuff then I search Reddit, if I'm searching for work-related stuff then I search HN and SO. It seems
You seem to have two very conflicting wishes here:

1) To have fun
2) To write a cross-platform web-base app with good HTML canvas inter-op ...

If you really want to deliver this cross-platform app, then it seems that's going to be more work than fun, although no doubt good tool/framework choice can help minimize the headaches.

For a fun project it seems better to avoid all of the things that you already know are going to make it not fun!

My current fun project is writing a compiler to run on an old 8-bit system (initially targeting en emulator) ... 99% useless, but fun, and I get to choose whether to implement the bits that are stupidity on behalf of the language spec, or extend the language to make it better, etc, etc - no practical considerations forcing requirements on me, since it is purely for fun.
Those are two different things, digital nomad is not work from home. I mean.. they even use opposing words. Nomad means some form transient, home origin or permanent place of residence.

There is also the other way to to spin your point, what about all the small towns they've helped
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lizfarmer/2021/09/15/the-small-...
Ship as you make.
We have self driving cars in SF, though.
Web can not be dying because "building an app .... is Sisyph-ian challenge".
Web is dying because you try to create apps, not linked documents.
Web is not for apps.
Automoderator was on me for posting too quickly last night.

No, I'm saying that the fact that new styles are always criticized is not implicit proof that all styles eventually become accepted.

I will clarify that by "flocking" I meant "visiting". Some people live in cities and towns that are so nice other people want to visit those cities--New York, Paris, Florence, Aix-en-Provence, whatever. This effect is not limited to large cities--there are also smaller towns that people deliberately go and spend vacation time in just to feel a sense of actually appreciating the buildings and paths they're surrounded by. When they're not spending their PTO touring actually nice places, they live in the Modern American City, which is a place to exist while you drive between your apartment box, your job box, and your preferred entertainment center.
A little unsafe is better than all unsafe.
Why Netflix Leads with Context Not Control
Nope, nope, and more nope. You're not moving the Overton Window any more on me.

In fact it seems there's a clear correlation between the quality of software and how much spyware there is embedded in it. It's often merely another way to justify unpopular changes with "but the data says so".

IMHO if you want to collect any information, it should never be anything but opt-in, a conscious decision.
I wish they'd set up an F-Droid repo so you don't need to follow Github links to download Firefox. F-Droid is the de-facto open source app store for Android, after all. Bromite, a privacy-focused Chrome replacement, has an F-Droid repo, and that's run by a single guy as far as I can tell, so surely Mozilla can do the same.

Right now only Fennec is on F-Droid (which has some changes that give you more user freedom than the default browser build…) but Firefox is nowhere to be found. Their build process is incompatible with the official repo but that doesn't mean they can't set up their own repo instead.
This happened to me last week, but with Wayfair instead. We ordered something from Wayfair by a seller called "Williston Forge", and the item that arrived was in packaging branded as "VASAGLE". I looked up the corresponding VASAGLE item and the exact same thing was available on Amazon for one-third of the price.

I ended up returning the Wayfair SKU and getting the Amazon one instead. Something about the branding just screams Alibaba drop-shipper to me, but the product itself was fine so I stuck with it.

Left a (politely worded) bad review on the Wayfair SKU page, and surprise surprise, it's not been approved for display.

Since then, I've also been wary of stuff on Wayfair.
That's the one with 1 KB/s of throughput for the whole world right? A single 28.8 modem's bandwidth for the transactions of billions of people.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/size-btc.html#1y

And before anyone says "lightning network" realize that that's like playing catch in your back yard and thinking you're going to pad your major league baseball lifetime stats.

You could also say it's like passing IOUs back and forth with a friend.
But if you're browsing the web aren't you by definition going to "use a product that is constantly updating and adding features in that are going to be taken out shortly"? I'm always impressed when I realized a website did a redesign that basically moved buttons from the top of the screen to the bottom of the screen.
Why is this a stretch? A vast majority are using this ultralight laptop for gaming.
Well, what happens when Google releases Bard, their own ChatGPT for Search? Then we've got Google playing both sides of web scraping - both for link aggregation and AI research (as though they weren't doing it for AI research anyway).

How do we legally differentiate that? Right now there is no legal differentiation as far as I can find. And an occasional verbatim paragraph or copied image does not overcome the "fair use" firewall in which intent (did ChatGPT intend to allow copyright infringement? Or is that just an occasional accident?) plays a huge factor. It almost brings back memories of Sony vs. Universal over whether VHS time-shifting was legal. The finding was that the device was legal, even though copyright-infringing use cases were possible and even likely.

You could argue that the internet, itself, would be a violation of similar standards. Tons of artists had their artwork posted online for profit without their permission in the early days. We worked through it and the internet wasn't declared illegal despite the abundance (and continued abundance) of copyright infringement. Even during the days of wild MP3 downloading, ISPs weren't legally considered enablers.

Yet another example I can think of - Photoshop. People who used Photoshop were culpable - but Adobe was never sued for making software that allowed celebrities to be digitally edited in horrific ways, or for copyrighted images to be remixed and edited en-masse. Intent matters - Photoshop clearly wasn't made with that intent, even though it is a possible outcome.
> Oh, I didn't know that on iOS the apps is responsible for picking another app to open an resource.

I don't think they are responsible, but you can invoke a specific app if you need. Google's apps keep showing this sheet with "browser choice" quite often, conveniently forgetting that the user keeps setting "don't ask me again".

The choices are: Chrome, Google, Safari, Default system browser.
And as a bonus, once you know Clojure (on the JVM) you basically get ClojureScript, on top of JavaScript, for free, which is amazing.
strange, i got https://www.reddit.com/search?q=Django%20connection%20poolin... when using that search. i think ddg bangs work best when set as the default search and you just type into search bar or right click on highlighted text then search. using vivaldi but chrome should be similar.
Money is not the only problem at most locations

Major Airports are often locked in to the Physical foot print either due to Geography or other factors. Sure you can just "move the airpoirt" but then you have the NIMBY problem where everyone wants an airport close by, but never near by....

And if you want to simplistically run it all down to "money" well at that point everything is a money problem, so for like NYC; they could spend billions or Trillions to turn midtown into a big airport, but that seem rather unrealistic.

This narrative that came out of COVID of "if it saves just one life" is a bit ridiculous imo, and not at all practical
The media is primarily reporting good news instead of actual news. Twitter has been the best source of images, videos, and descriptions of what is happening on the ground. Search #deprem (earthquake in Turkish) to see for yourself.
On iOS you can block YouTube ads if you watch through the browser. That alone makes plenty of people not bother with the app.
Exactly, that was my take-away. You don't need to think of the Sum function as a for-loop every time you use Sum, but it certainly helps explain it to a programmer who doesn't have a sense of what Sum is, but knows what a for-loop is.
FWIW milli does use unsafe in places.

Also I would recommend not conflating no GC and performance. There are lots of reasons for Rust being fast and many have nothing to do with no GC. The main reasons a lot of languages with GC are slower is due to allocating on the heap as opposed to the stack, and in general Rust does a lot of static linking and the compiler has the full amount of information to optimize calls without needing to move stuff to the heap. That's the main perf win.

Actually there are times when GC is more efficient than than automatically freeing memory because GC can batch cleanup work.
There are many runway intersections that are not 90 degree turns. They are frequently mid runway so typically only used by smaller planes for departure

Cleared to takeoff can be given before you have entered the runway, or you can be asked to “lineup and wait”.

The first means that you have permission to enter the runway, if you haven’t already, and takeoff. The latter means that you are cleared to enter the runway, but not takeoff and wait for takeoff clearance.