skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in a fang, most money spent on log storage is fully wasted. The article yesterday about monitoring being a pain was spot on.

More amusing is when you see someone build a giant Elastic Search pipeline to a Kibana dashboard so that they can get what would have been table stakes metrics if they had used the normal service templates. Without a ridiculously large bill.

Or folks that think they can warp around the high cardinality traps of making a metric out of everything. Assuming if you can make a system that works for the testing environment, of course it will work when you open the floodgates.

Seen people argue that sampling shouldn't be used, "because you could miss data?" Reservoir sampling is a thing, for very real reasons.

At any rate, I don't mean to just yell about splunk, from all I've heard it is nice. I am annoyed that folks seem to ignore the OLAP and OLTP divide, such that they think your metrics system should somehow be optimized for both. At the same time.

Pulling back to builds, though. What, exactly, is the gold standard in industry? I have yet to see it. Python builds, in particular, strike me as not good.
Should they also disclose the location of all the nuclear missile silos in the US?

I'm generally in agreement with a transparent government, but there must be some limits.
> restrictions on freedom of movement are pretty new thing though

So is how easy it is for anyone in the world to move to anywhere else in the world within 24 hours. The situations and their outcomes are difficult to compare.

People want restrictions because of a long list of concerns with open borders. This seems to be the prevalent view in every country in the world (are there outliers?).

Do you not see the concerns that people have with open borders as valid?
There are several reasons in this case:

You don't always know before-hand when, where, or how it's going to "fail". SQL doesn't fail. Sure, *I*, the programmer, could use either incorrectly, but that's not what I mean- I mean that the ORM library is always a bad abstraction that either hides the features of the DB you're actually using, and/or has gotchas and workarounds.

If you use both, now you have to deal with integrating them both into your code in some semi-consistent way. Most (some? just me?) of us would balk if someone said they included two different HTTP request libraries into their project because one of them was more convenient most of the time, but the second one was the only one that worked for some of the requests they have to make.

ORMs are an investment. They're always complex and leaky abstractions that require a significant amount of time to learn and wrestle with. If they only serve to make the easy queries a little bit easier, but you still need SQL for the actually-hard stuff, then it's hard to imagine a scenario where that investment is actually worth it.
I read PET actually is recycled extensively. I mean, you need to recycle it, but it's economically viable to actually recycle it rather than just make it "someone else's problem".
I've got a couple old Androids (MotoX and something else ~2015ish) that won't boot due to dead batteries. There's an endless loop of:

- Charge to ~.25%

- Phone automatically powers on

- The boot process takes more power than the charger can provide, so it drains the battery

- Automatically powers off because battery is back to 0%

I've had them on the charger for a few hours and watched this process repeat over and over. Short of disassembling and swapping the batteries I've tried everything I can think of to get them to power up
It is unlikely there is such a point.

The Canadian government still holds crown land that they will give away for free to anyone willing to settle it. That provides an option of last resort. Any location in the country that compels one away from free has got to be worth it. While one may complain, as people love to do, they are still pulling out their purses because they know it is worth every penny.

Should the balance change, people will leave for greener pastures before worrying about rioting. Canada's whole legacy is built on people moving around when certain locations become too expensive. Its ancestral people have done it over, and over, and over again. There is no reason to think this time is different.
Same, except I wash it like once in a blue moon lol.
still don't get it, is this one of those things I'll magically be attuned to if I become a parent (but only maybe?), or does it require personal experience? or is there anything I can read about
Show HN: Simple way to print and mail a document
This website allows you to print and mail a document to any US address, including to yourself.

I made it for people like me who lack a printer and/or envelopes/stamps.

I mainly use it to print stuff out for myself, send forms that have to be mailed (insurance claims, government forms, etc.) as well as save money / time vs. going to a print shop.

I apologize for the need to setup an account - given the need to upload docs, I felt this was important. If there's sufficient interest, I can setup a logged out flow.

I would love to hear feedback. Thanks for taking a look!
the gate has no validation - you can input anything.
Hey debarshri thanks for your comment. I'll reply inline to your points as I think others on the thread might have the same question

> When you have simple SaaS platform, a platform like amplitude or mixpanel is generally enough capture these metrics. You can create these funnels in that product. The level of customization in these tools is pretty good too.

It's true that you can create most of the features in June in Mixpanel or Amplitude. Setting up June as a small company though will take a lot less time and give you out of the box the most important things that you should be looking at.

As an example here's an email from one of our users: https://imgur.com/a/UO1ZPOZ

> You can start with a basic tool, but everyone eventually moves to an advance product like amplitude or mix-panel for SaaS.

Interestingly we see the opposite, most of our paying customers were Mixpanel or Amplitude users that weren't using those tools that much because of the effort involved to get some valuable information, preferring a simpler product for a shorter time to value

The way we see it is that in the long run - as we develop our product more and more, companies will have something like June for any use case that is not unique to their business (like launching a new feature, activating users, see how your biggest customer uses your product etc..) and a data warehouse with a BI tool for every analysis that is unique and only relevant to your specific business.

That being said right now we see that companies from the Series B stage onwards graduate out of using June and that's totally fine for us for now. You can read more about our approach to building our product here (https://www.june.so/blog/reaching-product-market-fit)

> One of the problem we have in my current startup is that we have multi-tenant customers, different deployment methods - on-prem/managed etc. Platforms like amplitude, do not cater to these types of models. So, instead we built our own datawarehouse+metabase setup that gives us very granular control, reliability and assurance over the data, as well as we built lot of custom metrics.

One of the things we're built for is that for every event you send you can specify what tenant performed that action and every report works both at a user level and at a company level. (see: https://help.june.so/en/articles/6789004-how-to-track-compan...) For other tools company tracking is an add-on to the core product, for us it's the core.

So not only you know how many users use your product, but you can look at the behaviour of individual tenants for every metric you're looking at. Additionally for every tenant we automatically generate reports for that specific company, so when your Customer Success or Sales people hop on a call with customers they have answers to questions like "how much are they using our product?", "who are their top users?" and "have they started using all of our core features?"

It's a long answer, but hope it addresses some of your doubts :)
Over-relying on Autopilot _is_ poor driving. That's why he was cited.

How would blaming Autopilot lower your culpability?
No thank you. A lot of professionals perfectly understood the idea. What Apple came up with was essentially a "privacy preserving" backdoor; the behavior is still fully opaque to the user and acts against their interests. In the event of a false positive, we fall all the way back to "just trust us bro" territory, which basically destroys the strong guarantees that E2EE is supposed to provide when you use it correctly. The way I see it, you either offer E2EE or you don't: if you can't accept the potential consequences, simply don't play.

That having been said, given how they paraded their backdoor approach as a way to eat their cake and have it too, it's unsurprising that it attracted the attention of governments. They perhaps thought that implementing a scheme like this would put them ahead of the game, showing legislators they're self-regulating to work on these problems. In actuality, they're really just putting the future of digital privacy in dire straits.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Is there any chance of open sourcing the ui?
>”The majority of costs a person will typically have on a country are their initial K-12 education, and their health care costs later in life. Immigrants like these will never cost the government that first major cost.”

Something about this is horribly depressing. It’s bad enough that the private sector is doing everything humanly possible to maximize profit.

It makes me wonder what the point of citizenship is if government officials and elected representatives see the cultivation of those born in the country as more expensive and burdensome than just bringing people in. And, it sounds like the government is more interested in higher salaries for new arrivals than longtime constituents.

And it’s not like this is sustainable either. All these much more profitable immigrants are going to become settled and have their own children, who will then become just as expensive to educate.
While what you're proposing is probably in the spirit of antitrust laws, the actual effect would be the US perceiving this to be an "economic act of war" not unlike the economic sanctions they have been dealing out lately...
My house is essentially an art gallery — I had a museum lighting expert do all of the lighting installs and the key thing is going to be the width of the light (correctly focusing the light so it doesn’t spill outside of the painting much,) then color temperature.

The focus of the light is key — by lighting the painting and not lighting the walls around it, that makes it pop a lot more than typically area lighting common in residential applications. Color temperature is also very important. Finally, in my case; my walls are painted a dark, lead-pipe grey so it makes the paintings really jump.

The brand of my lights is Wac Lighting controlled by Lutron dimmers in case you are interested. Color balanced LED. LED used to be inferior for galleries, but the tech has gotten very good (added benefit of running a lot cooler than the old halogen.)
Yeah. The amount of FUD and ignorance out there in the technical world WRT the .NET ecosystem is astounding.
There absolutely are. I work as a paramedic and among other things we have a contract with the state run secure mental health facility which has people who are civilly committed, but also people who have been adjudged not fit to stand trial.

It's also not entirely easy to get found not fit to stand trial - it's not just you and your lawyer and a friendly psychiatrist - the prosecution has the right to call its own mental health professionals and they are required to have access to the defendant, and more.
I want to live in the same world as you but we’re not here yet! Our best way to get there is to use our current tech and ressources as they are precious while keep on advancing tech, instead of using those ressources to build the maximum throwable stuff we can and disperse the waste.

It’s not about copying thinks third world but about health, resource management and public space enjoyability.
Yes. The text says it's net revenue, which is gross revenue minus COGS.
> How can you export the people who are a burden? You can’t leave them stateless.

Sure you can. The only reason nations avoid allowing people to become stateless is an appreciation of the burden that places on those people. But if we're pursuing a modest proposal where the government shifts its perspective to focus on "realize[ing] higher economic utility for" itself, that becomes less a concern.

At the very minimum you can "export" those low-economic-utility people by sticking them them on a barge and towing it to well into international waters where the currents will take it away (and if you're a nice government, just outside the territorial waters of some other country).
My company went permanent full remote. We are much less productive, velocity per engineer is about half what it was. I'll freely admit it's because the company is poorly managed, but in my experience tons of companies have leadership that isn't able to quickly pivot in the way needed for WFH to be successful. It requires a lot of effort to get remote engineers to communicate well and at least here it basically just doesn't happen anymore.
The thing is, the 10k commands don't get in the way. You'll never interact with them, unless you type 'M-x thingiwanttodoandwowitsalreadythere'.
func firstName[T AsBytes](name T) T

Ok, I stand corrected. Can you define AsBytes for string then?
That sounds like a fine idea to me, so long as the product was designed to end up there rather than it being the catch-all solution for anything whose maker didn't think ahead.
Yeah, but once it's a performance issue you're making $$$ and you can add some indexes or write a little SQL in the few places that need it :P
This would be excellent.
Modern encryption schemes include random nonce values in their algorithm. If I encrypt "Hello World" twice with say ECDSA I will get 2 different values to prevent exactly this issue.
Just an idea, if you find yourself unable to warm up to tiling:

for_window [all] floating enable

It's stupid, but I've been using this for a couple of years now.
> All it takes is a handful of lifestyle changes.

Please share these handful of lifestyle changes.
...and ketchup is a jam
They don’t co mingle though. They segregate themselves into “Mexican neighborhoods”, “Indian neighborhoods”, etc. They marry and socialize amongst themselves.
In my opinion a lot of comic book worlds are quite ludicrous and lazy.

A man with the power of... ants. Spider man. A man that wears tight underwear on the outside of his pants... A man that pretends he is a bat.

Compare this with backstories from Japanese manga which clearly some are targeted at more adult levels of intelligence I'm flabbergasted a hollywood exec would decide to pour millions of dollars into some backstory aimed at children from the 1940s.
Is pizza an innovation so meaningful we need to fight over who invented it? It’s flat bread with food on top heated. I’m sure it’s been a thing since day 2 of bread
That's Arkose Labs and 2Captcha, Anti-captcha and Nopecha have bypasses for them.
The idea maze for AI startups (2015)
Our solar system could be hiding an extra planet the size of Uranus
> Auto pilot does not make a driver loose control

If you don't have to concentrate on driving, and accordingly don't, you've lost control already.
“ The result of this is an Internet where all of the world's CRUD apps are hosted in Loudoun County, VA (motto: "where tradition meets innovation"), at Amazon's us-east-1 in Ashburn, a city with so many Rails apps that one of them was elected to the county Board of Supervisors.”

So true it hurts
RFK Jr is a long-time, well-known conspiracy theory whacko. This isn't some questionable edge case, hosting his content is straight up unquestionably providing a megaphone for harmful public health misinformation. The only reason for feeling otherwise about RFK Jr is if you're unfamiliar with him, or are deep in the hole yourself.
Just get good and don't make any mistakes obviously, what are you some sort of noob?

/s
Not snappy on reading I/O but the UI was fast as hell.
With SSD's a Pentium IV with SSE2 support with TDE3 under Slackware Linux running Konqueror, Amarok and Kopete (Konqueror against a non-JS site) will run circles around lots of core i7 setups with Spotify and Slack...
"Foreign" is quite common in intelligence contexts, though, and "alien" is not.
Also child.parents[0].user.username :)
ORMs will always be bad. They take control away and lock you into a system where fewer people are using than the underlying tech being hidden.

SQL is not hard, and I today's world most people should be using indexed documents, vs trying to do inner and outer joins to save some bytes. And in the cases where all the advanced SQL stuff matters you probably are not going to want to use a ORM anyway.
If ignoring cost, closing a road for likely months, papering over potential design issues for a temporary solution is not an issue, then go ahead and do this every where.
Speeding up repairs would be lovely, trying to make municipalities not spend 50% of the budget to prevent wasting pennies and then giving the construction contract to connected entities on the other hand...
Mozilla just doesn't come off as particularly credible. They talk a big game but then they waste no opportunity to fail to to live up to their values.

Consider this: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

Even looking past how little it's actually saying, there are so many contradictions.

> Individuals’ security and privacy on the internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional.

> Individuals must have the ability to shape the internet and their own experiences on it.

And yet...

* It's damn near impossible to disable telemetry in Firefox. It's very clear they're fighting to prevent you from doing this, as evidenced by the fact that there are options that sort of half-disable telemetry, but not all of it. Fully disabling telemetry requires navigating a minefield of dark patterns and obscure configuration dialogues. [1]

* Firefox will use said connections to, without asking let alone telling you, change feature flags in the software you've installed on your computer, or reset configuration options. [2]

* Firefox forces ads and third party integrations like Pocket onto its users. Time and time again. No respect for consent or user preferences. [3]

It's abundantly clear that privacy and user choice only matters to Mozilla when other organizations are violating them.

[1] https://github.com/K3V1991/Disable-Firefox-Telemetry-and-Dat...

[2] https://mozilla.github.io/normandy/

[3] http://techrights.org/2022/10/21/mozilla-no-respect-for-cons...
I'm at least 50 of them
IP Enforcement.

If I'm a European, Israeli, or Japanese conglomerate that wants to make a clone of Pfizer or Abbott compounds, I can't do that in the EU or US+Canada because I'd be sued for patent infringement.

On the other hand, India, Israel, and Japan don't recognize or enforce American patents for pharmacuticals.

After Israel and Japan became developed countries in the 80s-90s, it became expensive to manufacture within both, so the Pharma companies like Teva and Takeda began investing heavily in the Indian Pharma manufacturing base in the Himachal Pradesh-Chandigarh-Haryana-Uttarakhand corridor and the Hyderabad-Pune corridor.
I benefited from a similar program a year ago, and although I have no regret, I feel that some honesty might help other.

First and foremost, the Canadian tech scene is nothing like the US, Europe, or Asia where I'm coming from. Tech jobs are rare. The flagship tech employer is Shopify and they just recently downsized.

Second, salaries are garbage, especially for migrants. There is a term for this situation called "Canadian Experience": employers claim that because one does not have experience working in Canada, they deserve a crappy salary while they acquire it. This is of course bullshit. It got so bad that it's actually been addressed by the government and made illegal, at least in Ontario[0].

Finally, the cost of life is absurd, with respect to income. In Vancouver or Toronto, rents are completely out of control, and buying is out of the question unless you have some serious funds, especially with the recent hike in mortgage rate. Price of food surged dramatically in the past months as well, and although I have a decent job (in terms of distance from the median salary), I don't go out nearly as much as I would want because it's too damn expensive.

Now, Canada is a great place for normal humans to live in, especially with a family, and again I have no regret. But right now, it's not a good place to make it in tech.

[0] https://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/policy-removing-%E2%80%9Ccanadian-...
Some people just want to believe.
And honestly Apple really only cares about its first party applications, Microsoft, Adobe and a few other high end applications.

Microsoft has to care about niche vertical market apps that will never be updated.
The Secretive Surveillance Wizards Helping ICE Wiretap Facebook and Google Users
If I see someone with a little shrine to kids movies, I think, "I have different tastes than this person." If I see someone write a comment like this, extrapolating that to some sort of general societal ill wherein children don't adequately suffer, I think, "this person might be very difficult to get along with."
The first article does not say that councils own cameras nor that cameras are used for catching minor crimes. It does state that powers intended for serious crimes were, incorrectly, being used for prosecuting minor crimes and that it's possible that CCTV cameras were involved (though could have been park wardens).

The third article says pretty much the opposite of what you state: there is absolutely a right to decline a law enforcement request (under GDPR) and that there is a warrant process ie a court can oblige you to.

I can't access the second article but I don't live in Wales so they aren't my local force.
> you'd have to bring your own $5 drinking vessel to Starbucks because there probably wouldn't be a "to-go" cup available without petrochemical-based cups

Of the many things we need to change, this is NOT a hard sell, I have been doing it for several years now, and for the past few years I have even gotten a discount... there's a caveat though : it's a plastic cup (unlike their paper cups with what I assume is an extremely thin plastic layer), and I now realize that I haven't really done the kind of math they did there, neither did I double-check my university where I got it about just how harmful this cup was supposed to be.

Still, some countries (like Germany ?) successfully resisted the phasing out of the (unbroken) glass bottle deposit system, that plastic bottle sellers are trying to get rid of.
an upvote wasn't enough! this is cool, thanks for sharing.
As I recently read, scientists speak to the press when they are either trying to raise money or are obligated to do so by those who who have given them money. And the press is just excited to have something to print.
We are talking about reusing for old phones here- does it really need to be power competitive? When we talk about compute per watt we are really talking about cost. What is the cost of something modern and power competitive compared to reusing a phone that was already purchased, in a setup that mostly idles?
Did not assume. Asked, maybe the other distros are old versions. Not sure why else there would be a huge difference... maybe flatpack/snap dependencies not in fs page cache.
Having grown up on Heroku, it's such a breath of fresh air to see companies innovating in this space. Render, Fly are the big ones, but even little one-man shops like Hatchbox are good enough to deploy medium-scale production apps.

Kudos to these companies, the VCs, and the beta testers.