skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is very common among people who organized or were very active in summer 2020 anti-police violence protests

> ..., fraud, low level drug stuff...

fraud has a specific victim, someone who was defrauded. plenty of folks are out there fighting against drug laws. you're not going to find a lot of folks helping you defend fraudsters.

> I'm sure mine are just more criminal

i don't think any of that makes your friends, or those protests, sound better.
Ed Fredkin has died
Ed Fredkin, once known as "world's best programmer", passed away on June 13, compare the Tweet by Dag Spicer (CHM senior curator). This links to Ed Fredkin's oral history [0], which is full of amazing stories and well worth reading.

[0] https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10263050...

Also compare the previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36326390
https://sapling-scm.com/

It did work out.
The first image does show the porthole without any glass (acrylic) in it, but I'm sure an implosion would be violent enough to blow it out anyway. I'm going to be very interested in what they determine to be the critical failure point. Porthole is a possibility, but there were some other points of failure in the joining of the titanium domes to the carbon composite hull.
In fact, there are many smart people, and relatively few of them have their manager's ear, while management also listens equally to a bunch more not-smart people pointing to the popular smart people, saying "these people are smart", ignoring the merit of the position of other smart dissenters.
In short, it's all a big train of reasoning based almost entirely on the "appeal to authority" fallacy.
Their idea & implementation was MUCH better (and more secure & private) than the awful proposal their opposing here.
Yes, yes, keep going.
That's not a very impressive article, and it seems like it's a practice that greatly predates modern communication infrastructure.
> When state is introduced

Only the most trivial business systems can operate without any state.

If your application has any sort of shared, mutable state, you absolutely need to pick a region, or go really deep into the EC/consensus/clustering rabbit hole. With a dedicated region with 1 big DB, you can achieve latency figures (over the shared state) that would be infeasible with other schemes. Serializing transactions in a distributed manner is a circus compared to what Postgres has to do to achieve the same.

For better or worse, sticking a big SQL database in exactly one region will almost always be the best path for most forms of business. If latency/edge are still a concern at this point, that's when we maybe start talking about more specific geographies and standing up read replicas in those regions. In my experience, if you are peddling B2B webapps, no one will ever complain about east vs west coast latency unless you actually screwed something up in code.
> Is there anything good samaritan citizens can do locally (on a standard residential lot) to improve the particulate pollution levels outdoors around their house? (and possibly their neighbors' too?).

I would say electrifying your home would be a good first step. For example, we could replace following at home starting with:

Gas Furnace & AC -- Heat pump

Gas cooktop -- Electric cooktop

Gas Blowers, Mowers -- Electric versions of same
... they gonna make it easier for US citizen remote tech workers to pursue PR status without having to find a Canadian employer first (and, so, take a big pay cut)? I'd love to move my family there and start paying our way-above-median-income taxes to Canada instead of the US, but struggle to make the minimum score for immigration in any Canadian province despite having the advantages of the right kind of career and degree (and, actually, I think we've aged out of making the cut in any of them, now, as of the last year or two).

[EDIT] To be clear, I get why this narrow slice of the population isn't one they're worried about bending their immigration system to accommodate, and I'm not mad about it, it'd just be really cool if we accidentally got helped by some other, larger reform.
Ashburn does not have "like three restaurants". The datacenter zoned part of the city has "like three restaurants". If you ever drove >5 minutes from those large shed warehouses, you'd know what you're talking about.
That they build a huge dam to block natural waterflow, and sell urine to the masses.
How does the thing that enables society also destroy it?
+9000. This is a great post. I like how you are realistic about "rags" vs "riches". Cool. Please post more!
We are poisoning ourselves in the name of economic growth would be more correct.
But in HN the debate is about if plastic is a correct word and what term should be used and labeling, a place where everybody knows that the majority of people don't read labels, instructions or manuals.
I believe the limitation on takeoff is a conscious decision by the manufacturers designed to ensure a pilot is present (similar to Tesla's hands-on-the-wheels) and not a technical limitation.
Canada is a tough cell. This story from a couple of weeks ago. "I respect myself too much to stay in Canada" was an article that got a lot of traction.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/06/11/i-respect-mys...

Just remember, Canada is geographically situated near the US but their attitudes to innovation, risk taking, rewarding talent, and merit based promotion are not the same. Even if they say that it is - the reality is very different.
You can run "less -X" for that, but it may have other problems depending on how you use less (e.g. scrolling up, etc.)
The thing I've noticed about slippery slopes is the goal posts are also on the slope.
The docs are open source, so I looked it up. It seems to be built with https://vitepress.dev/
Concentration in two or three cities which can't sprawl much further anymore, poor planning, policies intended to inflate house prices, and higher building and infrastructure costs due to the winter complicating construction (as well as criminal involvement in construction)
> The system was designed to work only with images as they were being uploaded to iCloud

Not iCloud, since that would imply it was scanning entire device backups stored in iCloud.

It was intended to scan just the photos that you uploaded to their publicly accessible Photo sharing website, iCloud Photos, in a way that even Apple wouldn't have access to the results unless you uploaded more than 100 photos that matched known kiddie porn.
I am constantly dumbfounded with the fact that the majority consumer of memory on my machine is a FN web browser! (that said, I *do* have basically like 30 tabs open at any given time...

(It would be cool if dormant tabs can just hold the URL, and kill all memory requirements when dormant after N period of time..)

But heck, even when I am running a high-end game on my machine, the memory consumption is less than when I have a bunch of tabs open displaying mostly text ...
I find it odd to call out Foucault as being insufficiently materialist compared to Marxism. Popper famously called out Marxism in particular for its unfalsifiability.

Not that Popper's critique is beyond reproach. But much of this paper seems to be, "The Marxist criticism of Foucault is that Foucault is not Marxist". It stresses the assumptions of Marxism, while failing to reckon with Foucault's critique.

Marx sought to make a science of history. The postmodern program says that it's not so simple. Both are right: the further away you get from fundamental physics, the more convoluted your science inevitably becomes. That doesn't mean you can't try: we do biology despite it being so insanely complex.

Popper will always struggle with the fact that he can't perfectly tell the difference between scientific hypothesis revision and pseudoscientific goalpost moving, because there isn't one. That leads to the worst of postmodernism's abuses, but you can't solve that by sticking your head in the ground and pretending that you've got it solved.

So this author is will within his rights to dislike Foucault. Postmodernism has been co-opted by intellectual laziness to give us a post-truth society. And there may be no solution to that. But if there is one, it's forward, not backwards. We have to admit what we don't know about the structures of power -- of which class is one, but it's not as simple as a biological taxonomy, which the author wants it to be.
Regions also important for more regulated geographies
I loved it. They stayed as far away as possible for your traditional grandiose, jargon-filled, corporate speak we normally get in these announcenments. They definitely gained a few points with me :).
My submission was originally for scientificamerican.com but HN rewrote it to that domain. I guess SA are embedding articles that others wrote. FWIW it wasn't a paywall on SA's site.
sure. but thats not what the OP was saying. A pipeline of evented/ETLd/UDPd logs to an analytical db like clickhouse is a fairly standard and reasonable thing to do at scale. Not putting it in postgres.
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Oh dear lord please don't come here. Our housing situation is horrible right now.
Well written! I think you should up the price to 4.99!
> A lot of generated code is committed at FB that isn't at Google. This exacerbates the previous problem. FB has a ton of partially and completely generated files that mean a change to the generating code has a massive effect. At Google, for example, the protobuf generated code is genearted at build time and isn't in the repo.

What's nice about this scheme at Google is all manner of generated code is indexed, so you can navigate up and down the caller-callee graph between artisanal code and generated code. Really works well.
Is the LFS faster than a regular distro? If the compiler takes into account your specific CPU and applies the available optimizations, it should be, right?
I watched the video on the site - a first grader winning a top prize and $1000?

Speaking as a parent, money seems like a wrong metric for gamification of reading - especially at that age and those amounts.

Perhaps you have insights to justify?
It will take them months to build something competing. Should they tell everyone to bot fly because they don‘t have their own database solution yet?
Recycling labels are some of the biggest falsehoods. Many plastics are simply not recycled at all, I think at best only #1 and #2 plastics are largely ever recycled. Even things like orange juice containers are considered not recyclable due to their heavy plastic coatings inside the paper shell and they will get sorted out to be dumped.

It's one way industry has scammed the public by convincing them much of the waste generated by low-cost (to the manufacturer) packaging was recyclable.
This is Fly - a much earlier stage company and them receiving early funding is the genesis of this entire discussion.

I point to Cloudflare (what I'm most familiar with). Across their entire stack of compute, storage, db, etc product lines you won't see a hint of region anywhere. It just works, everywhere. Same with Fastly/Oracle (although they like Fly are quite a ways behind Cloudflare).

I suspect (hope) that as Fly matures their apparent true goal of edge and region-less applications will mature more. Their compromises on region awareness for DB has always struck me as a more of a resource restraint compromise on their part than end goal. As you say these challenges are hard (expensive).
> Canada is the only non-declining large economy.

This is true, however the growth isn't actually from increased productivity, per-capita GDP is flat. It's entirely driven by high levels of immigration. So the standard of living isn't increasing. Maybe that's ok, since perhaps it's "good enough", but it's not necessarily attractive versus say various Europe nations if you're privileged enough to have the latter as an option.
But that's a fundamentally different view than "All VC funding is bad"; there are tons of risks involved and many actors aren't good in every industry, why specifically does venture capital draw your ire?
Of course, but even the best case isn't great. If we can draw down a large amount of CO2, the best case can be significantly better.

The potential for serious positive feedbacks makes this even more important.
> at the end of the day they built a system which could be used for scanning any file on your device for any reason

This kind of comment is exactly why they said lots of people didn’t understand the system.

Because it’s utterly untrue & appears to not display ANY understanding of the underlying system at all
New tuberculosis vaccine heads for Phase III trial
https://archive.ph/IbRah

While the article does not say "phase III", the Gates Foundation confirms that it is indeed this last stage of trials:

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-rel...
It looks like math but really it is describing an exchange of goods.
I have lived throughout different parts of Texas most of my life (born and raised in Dallas). The current heat wave isn't some grand sign of global warming - it just gets hot here... triple digits isn't a rarity. We have hot summers and really hot summers - always have.
Every import, which could be multiple container loads.

If there's a manufacturing defect, the manufacturer -- after losing a couple of batches or having them returned to sender, and having paid for multiple transit and testing costs -- should wise up.

In any case, this would absolutely protect the US pharmaceutical supply chain without pushing unnecessary and excessively onerous requirements onto manufacturers. How foreign facilities manufacture drugs should not be the FDA's concern; drugs are chemical systems and chemicals are easily amenable to testing as things in themselves.
Which, honestly, isn't any better than actually listening to conversations.
>>To be clear – you are saying this was an easy thing for Apple to construct?

No.

>>This is factually untrue and also not in contrast to the amount of effort they put in.

How so? I fail to see how this system has anything that would prevent it from being used to scan any file on the device? Sure their design is only for pictures, but why would it be limited to them?

>>This is also factually incorrect.

It's not, that is exactly what their technical paper says.

>> Did you read the technical documentation Apple published?

I did, multiple times, I've been having these arguments for a long time now.
Yes. And by doing so (and by removing recursion), you are also making the Halting Problem decidable.
Europe is just like Canada except it's main "advantage" is not bordering the US to prevent massive brain drain.
Sorry for rolling my eyes a bit at this “what’s your solution?” Playground challenge.

Anyone who has worked at f/m/a/g has worked on global application of local ideals and the user base each being enraged you don’t apply their local ideals globally.

“Obviously the first amendment” is a great example of this.
I really like the idea of permacomputing.

WTF happened to all the THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of machines I deployed to datacenters over the decades? Where are the F5 load balancers I spent $40,000 on per box in 1999?

I know that when we did Lucas' presidio migration, tens of million$ of SGI boxes went to the ripper. That sucks.

edit:

All these machines could be used to house a 'slow internet' or 'limited interenet'

Imagine when we graduate our wealth gap to include the information gap - where the poor only have access to an internet indexed to September 2021 - oh wait...

But really - that is WHAT AI will bring: an information gap: only the wealthy companies will have real-time access to information on the internet - and all the poor will have outdated information that will have already have been mined for its value.

think of how HFT network cards with insane packet buffers, and private fiber lines gave hedgies the microsecond advantages on trading stocks...

Thats basically what AI will power - the hyper-accelerated exploitation of information on the web via AI - but the common man, will be releagated to obsolete AI, while the @sama people of the world build off-planet bunkers.
Brand names were introduced to fight product adulteration. We still default to assuming that is working today. We should probably demand that this is actually true.
Is fly vs Hetzner really apples to apples though? A more apt comparison would be to AWS, GCP, and Azure no?
icinga? nagios?

you're stuck in 1999 friend

these tools, and the patterns they enable, have been outmoded for over a decade
I'm interested in seeing the skids, and learning about where they were found relative to the rest of the debris. Were the skids totally mangled, implying that they were attached when the implosion occurred? Is the debris field pretty contained, or very spread out? The former implies that the sub was close to the bottom, the latter implies that whatever happened occurred at a depth which allowed for currents and drift to spread the debris. If the skids are mostly intact then maybe there was some warning of trouble and the people in the sub tried to drop ballast. If the skids are destroyed then whatever happened is more likely to have been sudden and without warning.
The hardest thing for me to grasp about Canada is the massive amounts of government land, which is forests, which can become lumber AND to build cheap housing. A McMansion for everybody. Aren't many US homes built with Canadian lumber?
Its tough when revenues are costs are mismatched.
The peacenotwar/node-ipc drama around March 2022

"My entire PC got wiped Do not download" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30717676

"Node-ipc supply chain attack: peacenotwar" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30717382

"Tell HN: Microsoft forgives malware? Node-ipc virus writer not banned GitHub" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31706386

There were other similar projects https://github.com/open-source-peace/protestware-list and calls for DDoS attacks, even a docker image if I recall.
Fair.

I stand by my point though that the culture has significantly changed since 2012 - you of all people know that.

Just go back and look a decade ago at when people would post “hey we raise all this money” posts.

A full half of the comments would be like “nobody cares that you raise money are you actually doing something important?” or similar.

Tbh I think it was a healthier perspective, and we need to bring more “hacker” back.
You're still talking about a completely unrelated use of CAs here. We're talking about how you get two k8s pods to communicate with each other securely, as an alternative to using self-signed certificates and without leaking details of your internal infrastructure to a CT log. Nobody suggested using self-signed certificates for any of the things you're talking about; we are talking about what you should replace your self-signed certificates with. That's what both the article and this thread are about. You're arguing against a point that nobody made. You'd never use a self-signed certificate for a user-facing website or service and nobody suggested that you would. It is specifically the situations where you'd use a self-signed certificate that this subthread is suggesting using an internal CA for instead.

Stated another way, I believe you are saying "don't use internal CAs for things you'd otherwise use public certificates for" but what we're saying is "use internal CAs for things you'd otherwise use self-signed certificates for". I believe both statements are correct but we weren't talking about the first thing at all until you brought it up.
Our banking regulations kept the bubble from popping in 2008 and international capital figured out canadian real estate was a very safe bet. Housing prices never corrected and they kept growing at the same-ish rate as american housing. Add demographic (we increased our population by 3% this year, 1.2 million extra people while building 200k new houses) and geographic (most of our land is barely livable frozen rock where you can't just go park a camper) factors and you get the perfect storm.

An enormous chunk of our GDP growth comes from real estate transactions, we don't have much productive endeavours other than natural resource extraction. Canada is still very much a colony.
"Contribute back to our piece of crap that is 99% antagonistic to your use case" is not realistic. No amount of third party contributions to git will relieve git of its opinions about how development workflow should be done, and those opinions are not shared with every organization.
Electrification is not the goal, reducing net carbon output is the goal. Electrification is simply one of the methods we can use.

For things like air travel carbon neutral fuels are likely a better short to medium term solution (in the long term we can posit magical high density batteries).

However, if we are going down the path of actually trying to clean up the earth we should take a really long term view and remove all heavy polluting and heavy land use off planet. There is plenty of mass out there to do manufacturing, farming etc. Let's make earth into a garden planet giant park.
PSA: ProtonMail is available through IzzyOnDroid repo. ProtonVPN is available through FDroid repo. Proton Calendar and Proton Pass are missing though.
Why is it that any time VC financing comes up in any fashion we end up with some unrelated pseudo-meme walloftext nonsense bouncing back and forth between a treatise on the structural inefficiencies of capitalism and tech fundraising from 30 years ago? All with some tenuous barely coherent tie back to blockchain, or NFTs, or web3, or whatever The Next Bitcoin™ du jour is.
Present tense? The PDF you linked literally says that V2L is TODO and not specified yet.

"Future versions of this technical
specification will specify the functional requirements and
specifications required to achieve vehicle to X power transfer."
I think I looked at this when I laid it out:

https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/9105/international-cu...

So we put the ISO code at the end and ignore whitespace. But including a prefix sign as with `€1.234.567,89 EUR` would break it.
OpenAI has been quietly training AI models on Microsoft's cloud services
Even if I granted your premise that these are direct competitors (they most certainly aren't)... why not?
Interestingly, instead of resolving this important problem... the legislation they're passing is ostensibly credits to allow people to spend even MORE on housing.
Any idea if there are price caps? That's one thing i like about "dumb simple" machines is i'm paying for the machine, if it gets traffic and dies i still only pay $5/m. I'm not trying to build facebook, it's okay if it dies.
Thanks for your reply.

I can see how I could have been in the dark about someone's true feelings if they weren't in a "clique" that I was in. In my exact case though, I felt like the 'clique' wasn't just the people who liked drinking at the bar, because we also had lunches including those non-drinkers, zoom happy hours (2020!), etc. I mean, drinking alcohol itself is optional even at a bar.

You're right that decision-making shouldn't be done by a committee delineated as "just the people who drink together" -- and that could be a real risk if this type of thing isn't being carefully considered.

However, the only guarantee against it than I can think of would be the far worse policy to simply ban all socializing after work, because the same thing could happen if 4 people took up after-work hacky sack and the others weren't interested.