skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did Hashi corp make money (and an eventual billion dollar plus IPO!) developing open source tools like vagrant, consul and terraform...

Clearly the creator of ruff is going to expand from an open source tool into a company focusing on Python tooling and developer experience, services, etc. There is a market for stuff like that just based on pycharm and jet brains' success in the space alone.
Pandas 2.0 vs. Pandas 1.3 – Performance Comparison
He's actually someone I've known for a long time, so I was hugely amused to see him become a national figure (as it were).
I’m curious about this too.
especially when it doesnt seem to be the ruff founder who submitted this particular post. maybe dang or someone will rename it something more appropriate but from hn comments its pretty clear what the context is
If the company has high margins and low expenses, then their profits are already taxed. Its not like hiring one SWE makes your tax bill go to zero.
this is a useful reminder for all the optimistic people who are dreaming that MS will take over web search to liberate us from Google ads.
This comment is a good example of why "oh this is easy, I can write this myself" should not be the default approach in some cases. There's a severe bug in your set method, expiry times are not cleared when overwriting an expiring value with a value with no expiry. The library linked as the main thread does not have this bug.
Numberly Replaced Kafka with a Rust-Based ScyllaDB Shard-Aware Application
How Numberly used Rust & ScyllaDB to replace Kafka, streamlining the way all its AdTech components send and track messages.
"wildly biased to the left"

Yeah, they even think climate change is real.
I only ever got one thing from the DVD service: a disc from a season of Freakazoid! (that I never returned. Sorry).

I still purchase a lot of Blu-Rays, but I guess others lose a source of ripping now. That's unfortunate.
It would have been nice if this went to trail, though I can understand why they decided to settle. It would have been a mud fight.

Still, it would have been nice to get some light on both parties.

It would also be nice to know what the final settlement ended up being.
Ironically enough Covid showed us how fast emissions could be curbed and how quickly nature started to reclaim space when it was given room to breathe. The canals in Venice flowed clear for the first time in decades, air quality the world over improved drastically, etc… we all saw it, and nobody gave a fuck.

Everyone is too concerned with their bottom dollar and it’s gonna be too late to change once the collapse starts.
I am really, really curious to know the terms of the resolution.
> “Write a Python script that returns AWS IAM roles that contain one or more policies specified by one or more -p arguments. Use argparse to accept parameters and output the found roles as a comma separated list”

Again, this is completely unnecessary. This is like in the old days when technically illiterate people would quite literally Ask Jeeves[0] and search for full questions because they didn't know how to interface with a search engine.

A prompt that does exactly what you're asking: "python script get AWS IAM roles that contain a policy, policy as -p command line argument, output csv"

We'll see more of that terse, efficient, style as people get more comfortable, similar to how people have (mostly) stopped using full questions to search on Google. The "talk to ChatGPT like a human" part is entirely a distraction from taking advantage of the LLM for coding purposes. Perhaps more importantly, the responses being humanized is a distraction, too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask.com
If Watson had been good at anything but Jeopardy, IBM would have spent billions making sure we all knew.
The worst damage done by GOP rhetoric on the 2020 election is that it set us back decades in terms of our ability to have rational and productive discourse about election security. It's become an albatross that otherwise rational and technically minded people are unwilling to publicly discuss, lest they be labeled extremist by association.

The fact of the matter is our elections are not secure, in the sense that their results cannot be cryptographically verified. You either cannot verify your vote was counted, and/or cannot verify it contributed to the total votes received by the candidate for whom you voted. In aggregate, we can rarely verify that "all legitimate ballots were counted," and can never verify that only legitimate ballots were counted.

This is a problem, it's been a problem, and it will continue to be a problem. Our election infrastructure is only secure insofar as people trust it's secure, and people can only trust what they can verify. Otherwise, the winning party is asking the losing party to commit an act of faith in "trusting" a system that cannot be verified for correctness.

In 2017, Democrats recognized it as a problem, just like Republicans did in 2021. Yet we have so much whiplash from back and forth politicization of the issue that it's impossible to have a sane discussion about it.
Huh. And I was just thinking about quitting it. My queue has dropped from >80 discs to under a dozen.

I've been relying on it to bring me stuff on services I don't subscribe to. That's how I'm watching Picard, for example. There's not much else on Paramount I want to see. I could subscribe and then ditch it, but it has been convenient to just have DVDs arrive in the mail.

But there's less and less of that, and enough stuff on their subscription service that I've got plenty of entertainment. (I try to limit my staring-at-the-flickering-box time to a half-hour or so per day.)
Sad. Bluray sounds and looks better than any video streaming I've seen. Never look for compression artifacts, you'll never be able to enjoy highly compressed streaming again.

I got a LG C1 tv, upgraded netflix to 4k streaming ... and was disappointed, until I started watching bluray.
We're not talking about a tax credit at all though... We're talking about being able to deduct salaries paid.

A tax credit is usually an incentive, like if you spend 10k on solar panels you get to deduct the 10k and then the government might say "hey thanks for pushing renewable energy, deduct an extra 2k from your tax bill." That's a credit, which we're not discussing here.
Read the original paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5148
One of the core features of Reddit is that any person may create as many accounts as they like for free. Changing that would be incredibly disruptive.

You could set a minimum karma threshold, but that would only promote karma farming; which is already widespread.
Lazy F-Strings for Python
Logging with f-strings has finally stopped being stupid! Don't miss the lazy f-strings.
so it didnt fly over central matsu valley, denali range and delta junction?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/18/northern-lig...

perhaps you could enlighten me with a trajectory during launch, and during stage recovery. im not the only one that saw the spiral, and i had nieghbours on the next ridge that were disturbed by it as well, they thought the noise was my fuel exploding.
Netflix Q1 Earnings [pdf]
> I wish more people would pay attention to that 20%,

I agree with both of you - there's no reason why software should be as inefficient as it is, and there's also no reason why code should be as unreadable as it is, and those goals aren't mutually exclusive.
I just figured out the disconnect. This is only for tax reporting and not financials. This is going to be fun.
Turkey. Both Kurmanji and Sorani were banned in public use From 1982 to 1991. Using either still carries dangers. Distributing pamphlets in Kurdish can get you accused of aiding the PKK.
Amortising software development is just stealing from the future

It’s what software companies do to make themselves seem profitable than they are
Doesn’t Microsoft have enough money?
It can be development, if you are building a prototype for example. a good welder will notice that a bracket is missing and design one one the spot so the whole can be built for now - while telling the engineers about the problem.

That is a small % of welding though. Most is just straight production work. The % is open to question - if I ask you to put a winch mount on my trailer how much of that is custom R&D, and how much is production of the one off product?
Hey, fellow business owner here, but I am just getting started; haven't made a sale yet and haven't "paid" myself anything yet.

I am a single-man business. Would your situation be better if it had just been you? In other words, was it the fact that you had that other employee that is going to cause you to shut down? Or would it have happened with just you?
I recommend looking into their native strengths[1] first, as that will create a foundation for really wise use of their most stable, sustainable career energy.

StrengthsFinder / CliftonStrengths and Sally Hogshead's _How the World Sees You_ are great examples to look into. The USG also offers free career testing tools that are definitely worth a shot. Many schools also have career learning paths that offer other resources of this kind.

From that point, you should have a good starter set of tools that allow one to design the needed career outcome no matter what has changed in the world.

In addition to strengths, it's also a good idea to pay special attention to the "not interesting" and "less strengths in this area" measures/results, since those will helpfully indicate exhausting careers or jobs to avoid, even if they may seem interesting for hobby-type energy.

Good luck to you both, I know a lot's been changing recently.

1. These kinds of strengths are more about the energy one can consistently and flexibly commit to a specific set of perspectives on life and creativity, like for hours each day without prompting, and less about "is a talented artist," "can code," etc.
> We can try to prevent plagiarism and improve our detection of it, but there's nothing wrong or disappointing with the fact that people prefer to listen to Bill Gates than a random blogger.

Except when Mr. Gates and the random blogger are both out of their areas of expertise, people still believe Mr. Gates because he was successful elsewhere instead of applying proper skepticism.
Companies should be regulated to offer No as an option, and to make that option for all intents are purposes equally represented. No other way will work. Abuse makes a lot of money.
Outdated because the versions have changed a lot since the last publication of the book.

It is still good because it gives information about general things which are applicable across any version.

BTW,just checked the meaning of outdated on Cambridge dictionary portal; outdated means "no longer useful or modern" When I used the word outdated I meant "no longer modern" :)
The elite couples breeding to save mankind
Please don't post swipes, sneers, or flamebait to HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Ask HN: Looking for open source bulk anomaly detection
I'm looking for an open-source alternative to the Elastic multi-metric
job (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/machine-learning/7.17/create-jobs.html) - "Detect anomalies in multiple metrics by splitting a time series by a categorical field".

I'm looking for the job management/running alternative, not the algorithms etc.

Our current system uses Elastic multi-metric jobs to detect anomalies over thousands of metrics with zero effort - we are able to add additional metrics to the feed, which are automatically enrolled.

To be clear, this is not multi-variate anomaly detection - this is applying the same detection algorithm on many separate and distinct series in order to process a lot of series at scale to detect anomalies (outliers, missing data, etc) in each single, unrelated series, but doing this in bulk rather than configuring one job per series.

With elastic you feed it a dataset (via an elastic query) and provide a result property to split on, creating the multiple metrics - these effectively become their own model, except they're all processed in a single managed job.

The Elastic machine learning is fantastic for this purpose, and I struggle to find an alternative, which I'm looking for because of $$.

Thanks.
> How can 14 million pixels be 64 million times more pixels?

It’s Voxels not pixels. Voxels are 3D objects so to be clear this particular advancement isn’t 64 million (roughly 400 in each linear dimension^3) times better than the best that came before. Think 400x400 = 160,000 more pixels and 400 times as many slices.

Also the comparison is to a “typical clinical MRI for humans” which not only have 10 billion neurons but also tend to have relatively few slices. There’s little point in having people spend hours in a machine if a faster scan with fewer slices is good enough.

Anyway, while the point of comparison is suspect this is still a major improvement over earlier methods just look at the by comparison low resolution images in this paper from 2005.
https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/15/5/639/442213?logi...
Your friendly neighbourhood torrent merchant, I guess
Essentially yes. Sometimes it also includes people who have installed “free” VPNs.
Hempcrete is super cool, kind of a modernized cob with better moisture tolerance and it's fireproof
Yes, you can see I costed out a non-car round trip at $5. In NYC on the MTA it would be $5.50; in DC, between $4 and $8.

One thing I do in DC is ride bikeshare to the bar (where the amortized cost of the ride, with my annual membership, is basically $0) and then take metro back ($2).

And of course this is all moot if you can just walk, since it is always free, which is one major benefit of denser mixed use walkable neighborhoods.
I wonder if Berlin's society is already atrophying in this department.
> Something like this for example:

https://liliputing.com/linkstar-h68k-is-a-pocket-sized-route...

> At the heart of the little computer is Rockchip’s quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 processor with ARM Mali-G52 2EE graphics

How is the linux support for this ?
> Forty six percent of people would rather take on debt to finance their clothes than go to a thrift store?

Why do you think some people on HN are getting paid $400k to spam advertisements at people every minute? [manipulating them into making more purchases]
Why is it such a pastime for comments like this to be made?
Does this mean third party apps like baconreader will break?
Quite so, for any divisive $topic.

Here's an amusing (to me, at least) set of examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870
Feel very stable, but a bit lost. I think I need something satisfying to live for. Working for a BigCo doing random coding, working out, etc... it's just not that satisfying. Ok im making money and my life is comfortable, but that's not a life goal.
Roblox is a big C# shop that's pretty fun - platform tech in the gaming space. And hiring!
A 15-inch MacBook Air would be great. I got my first MacBook in 2012 (the mid-2012 MacBook Pro with Retina, which still runs like a champ). I had initially gotten the Air, but returned it after deciding I wanted the 15 inch screen. I think this has a chance of becoming their best selling laptop.
If you use 40g per km as commented here, it comes out to about 1 tree. Something seems off.
>sqlitebrowser

Been using this for years. Fantastic tool.
Then just have hyperspace or whatever. If you’re going to break the laws of physics for plot purposes, you don’t have to justify it.
Doesn't work. The market is not perfect, nor can it ever be.
It will be interesting to see what the terms of the settlement are.

I’m always amazed that firms go right to the brink of trial before settling. Sometimes the judge issues certain rulings that may lead a party to realize their odds are lower than hoped. But otherwise it seems like both parties wasted the court’s time when a settlement could have been reached at any prior point.

Settling often deprives the country of useful case law, or prevents bad actors from having to admit guilt. Totally understandable for the parties involved to take the sure thing rather than risking it all on a trial but it does negatively impact our society.
No because they are only HTTP proxies. But you don’t actually know how these companies get them, rumor is that they are part of browser extensions or free VPNs which users might install on their devices.

The most “reputable” company in this space is Bright Data (formerly Luminati).
You may be underestimating how much meaning people derive from jumping on bandwagons and having a simple to understand group identity.

Your suggestion would make many people unhappy. They can't win the competence game and hence 'really investigating' is a losing proposition for them. What they can do is jump on bandwagons very quickly, hoping to score a first mover advantage.

How much of an advantage would one get from taking a couple of years to really investigate Bitcoin and the algorithms involved, vs buying some as early as possible and telling everyone else how great it is? :)
> I feel like those issues could be ironed out by backend technical solutions though.

Or we can have a well designed and precise interface which lets you do what you want faster without having to type anything or constantly fight the machine to make sure your instructions were understood. The solution to AI shortcomings is not to throw more AI at it.
I love this simulation it's the best visualization I've seen of load balancing concepts.

One thing though - in my experience the biggest challenge I typically see is that different requests take different amounts of time for example you're running multiple instances of your monolith and there is an endpoint that returns a static response and another one that generates a huge report.

This is actually something that can be handled with a load balancer that can introspect layer 7 but that's a whole other thing
When seeing it written out like this is simple math, this tax change seems absolutely insane. It would mean some (many?) small businesses will face tax bills that are far higher than any actual cash they have on hand. How did anyone ever think this was a good idea?
> They could have killed what would make Netflix great and successful

You mean like Netflix is doing now?
‘Shut it off immediately':Healthcare industry responds to data privacy crackdown
Yeh, Redbox.
You might find these also interesting

- Higher-Order, Data-Parallel Structured Deduction https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.11573.pdf

- Functional Programming with Datalog https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16235/pdf/LIPI...

- A Systematic Approach to Deriving Incremental Type Checkers https://www.pl.informatik.uni-mainz.de/files/2020/10/increme...
You can still buy DVDs, or rent them from Redbox, or if you're lucky enough to have a local library with a DVD collection you can borrow them.
IP restrictions are easy to overcome using mobile networks. Basically, mobile networks assigns your device an internal ip and NATs out to a very small pool of ip public addresses. If they block you, they also block a very large chunk of legitimate mobile users. I'm a big ol' dummy when it comes to networking, so I imagine I explained something poorly... so any mobile network nerds feel free to pile on!

Captchas are super easy! There's a gagillion captcha bypass services for every type of captcha. Just snag the captcha token, send it in an API call, and then you get a verified captcha token.

See CGNAT for more details about mobile networks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT#cite_note-of...

It's pretty much impossible to stop the top 1% of the most dedicated scrapers without affecting end user experience.
Not sure where GP got that, either. There was no term for "consciousness" in ancient Greece, but perhaps psyche (soul) gets closest. And logos is far, far older than ancient Greece... In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God. (Hope you know I'm kidding)
> "This settlement reflects FOX's continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards."

What a world it is, that high journalistic standards can end in a $787m payout.
> I have occasionally disabled it, thinking it may have been the cause of some internet trouble, but so far that's never been true.

I hear people say this about PiHole all the time but I have a hard time believing it. I run into a couple sites a week that don't work right with Firefox standard privacy settings and UBlock Origin. I certainly don't want to add another troubleshooting step when web sites break.
It’s super easy to disable biometric auth immediately, either explicitly all through repeatedly failing the biometric auth by moving and keeping your eyes shut.
Yes and also people who install certain shady "VPN" software.
Oh nooo
I'm sorry, this spam network cannot generate inappropriate or offensive content
As a reminder, some of the redacted documents from the lawsuit: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/redacted-documents-in...
You think a Mac is better, but it really isn't. In fact, MacOS and iOS are further ahead in terms of dark patterns like this. FOSS OSes don't have these patterns, but they have other issues of course.
Please note that, obviously I know what you mean (and what I mean).. and if it wasnt clear - I am NOT a fan of the dystopian-cyberpunk-future..

For fucks' sake, I am guilty of helping the world get to the current dystopian shitshow we have going on today (as is 99% of HN, but especially us from the 1980s)

So take my stuff tongue and cheek.
The lack of specificity in your little table should illuminate for you why this is such a complex issue to comprehend. I understand there is some fictional, meaningless interpretation hidden inside your head where that table is "right," but for all normal interpretations, it's wrong.
The UK has the most secure voting system I know. Voting machines are not used, votes are always paper-and-pencil. Your ballot form contains a unique serial number to prevent multiple votes.

Votes are counted at the district level, with only totals being submitted up the chain, in order to protect privacy.

It's simple and it works.
Right, that's why, despite its being about as close to a dull, settled fact in policy-wonk and poli-sci circles as anything is, that the US system sucks in about a dozen important ways that other modern democratic systems do not, we cannot fix it.

The system is broken in ways that prevent fixing that very brokenness. We know exactly what's wrong, but can't do anything about it. You'd have to get a whole bunch of people whose personal power is tied up with the status quo, to, all at the same time, vote to weaken that power and the power of the organizations that put them where they are. Or you'd have to get at least some of the states that benefit from the brokenness to agree to weaken themselves. Neither is likely to ever happen—short of some very risky and probably-bad-rather-than-good developments that are more likely to end in authoritarianism than an improved democracy.
It's a niche, but I don't know how profitable it is. They pay postage both ways, which must cost them a significant fraction of a dollar. It doesn't take all that many disks per month to eat their profit margin.

And it all seems pretty hard on the disks. I've had a few disks arrive broken, including one just recently. I know that sometimes they have studio agreements to burn their own custom disks, but sometimes they're just paying full retail price.

Netflix got rid of much of its back catalog of cinephile movies a long time ago. I suspect that they just stopped replacing them when the physical disk broke. I don't know how big the market is for people who want obscure movies; I'm sure it's not zero, but it's probably not enormous.
This is misinformation. You owe this tax even if you do not claim any R&D tax credit.

https://www.grantthornton.com/insights/articles/tax/2023/sec...
Show HN: macosrec – take videos/screenshots of macOS windows from commmand line
Mindblown that we built the Web on this...

xs = ['10','10','10']

(3) ['10', '10', '10']

xs.map(parseInt)

(3) [10, NaN, 2]