skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This does seem bizarre. French law requires payment for sharing even the most minor snippet of a news article. If I understand this correctly, AFP wants Twitter to pay them for sharing news links on Twitter's platform. It seems like it should be the other way around.
https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-retains-wealthy-cust...
Thanks, kind of makes sense, they found an even more evil way to try and control the web.
Yep this is definitely a problem, but fortunately the culture/community around Elixir generally tends to frown on unnecessary macros. I heard the saying, "if it can be a normal function, it should be" many times, which pleases me.

Overall though this isn't something I've generally run into too much with Elixir.
Commoditize your complement.

Users need working DNS to use Cloudflare’s paid services. That used to be a business in and of itself, where OpenDNS made money showing people ads. But now the market price has been driven to zero.
> Where does Apple’s Social Network go from here?

Isn't it there a problem that their market is limited by hardware? Outside of the US I feel they might struggle to gain much traction.
Honestly I think that would be a really interesting book! It could be case studies of people who were 100% invested in a "system," but found that they got just as good (or better) results from following common sense guidelines and not sticking to them too rigidly.
Ah, there were no buttons for me anywhere on screen, so maybe it didn't fully load.

Thanks!
I just recently forced myself to make the muscle memory switch to using julia over bc.
I don't expect my almost 70 year old mother to know the history of internet browsers. She just wants to browse the internet.

I blame Google instead.
Well that's noble I guess.

Have you ever considered learning more effective communication techniques?
Yup I've done that too which also gives you free parallelization and as a bonus if the rules don't have a natural product you can always touch a sentinel file in each rule so that make can just pick up where it left off.

TIMTOWTDI.
Yikes. In order to move beyond make's flaws we re-create make's flaws over and over. The problem with this person's build scripts aren't that they were using YAML (though I sort of dislike YAML as well), it's that they understood neither Prolog nor Make.

(Though they make a few VERY good points about how control flow in logic programming can be mind-bending if the only thing you're used to is imperative programming.)
The article (and the local-first software) has nothing to do with cloud vs. on-prem. It's about the priorities in developing and running/using your applications: "The word “local” in the name refers to your personal computer. “First” means your computer is prioritized over “someone else’s.”". Local-first apps can still use cloud resources for synchronization or for simplifying their initial configuration, but it's not a focal and critical point of the design and only serves as one of the nodes and can be made optional. You can still get all the benefits of being cloud-enabled, but you're also getting all the benefits of working without any cloud involvement at the cost of adding synchronization and conflict-resolution mechanisms.
Hinton says we could very well be less than 5 years away: https://youtu.be/rGgGOccMEiY
We are in a tech war with China, so the BTC opened up a bit.

That's a reference to "Influx" a book where the Bureau of Technology Control grabs all the great stuff and keeps it secret because humans are unable to handle it.
> politically motivated conclusion

I... think the relevant politics are a bit obsolete.
Seems like sarcasm ;)
Read this first: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/

> Anyone who's worked inside a large organization knows the cloud is the solution to be able to get things done and deliver value to the business.

Local first is focused on end consumer experiences and is orthogonal to the on-prem vs cloud argument; ideally there wouldn't even be a server. @pvh and i&s team have done a great job threading the needle in articulating the ideology. At a high level it is advocating for products that can provide the benefits of the cloud without being locked on or turning your phone into a paper weight if it doesn't have internet access.
Big oil, which surely must have paid off everyone who entertains the thought that perhaps we can not Just Stop Oil.
> which is easy to hit even on a development server

That's actually a good thing.
Across the dozens of Chrome threads over the last week, I haven't seen discussion about the impact of businesses' usage of Google Workspace. I'm sure this is relevant to the discussion on moving away en masse from Chrome; I use Firefox primarily but need to use Chrome for various organizations.

There's quite a few really useful features for Workspace org admins, from blocklists and telemetry to provisioning browser extensions and adding bookmarks, and most of these features require end users to use Chrome. In fact, you can configure security policy such that end users can only use Chrome to login to their company account, and there are multiple reasons from a corporation's perspective to enforce these types of policies.

Microsoft 365 is the most dominant player, and I assume Google Workspace is second in enterprise user account management. Are there any prominent, stable open-source business cloud stacks that meaningfully compete here?
Other libraries are available: distlib is even part of PyPA, but apparently its approach to trying out new things put some people off, so it's not "blessed". It supports legacy, standard and semver versions in its version module [0].

>>> from distlib.version import LegacyVersion, NormalizedVersion
>>> NormalizedVersion('2.4.0cloudera2')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/disk2/vinay/projects/scratch/distlib/distlib/version.py", line 33, in __init__
self._parts = parts = self.parse(s)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/disk2/vinay/projects/scratch/distlib/distlib/version.py", line 276, in parse
result = _normalized_key(s)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/disk2/vinay/projects/scratch/distlib/distlib/version.py", line 188, in _pep_440_key
raise UnsupportedVersionError('Not a valid version: %s' % s)
distlib.version.UnsupportedVersionError: Not a valid version: 2.4.0cloudera2
>>> LegacyVersion('2.4.0cloudera2')
LegacyVersion('2.4.0cloudera2')

[0] https://distlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference.html#the-...
Even with an order of magnitude (or two!) difference it’s still an easy problem, especially for DNS.
Show HN: Live spectrogram – helpful desktop notifications in noisy surroundings
While I'm setting up my new home office, my temporary desk is right next to a fridge/freezer that has a terrible low-frequency buzzing. Noise cancelling headphones are a godsend in this situation, but I don't want to wear headphones for 8 hours straight every day.

Luckily the fridge/freezer is only buzzing when the compressor is on, so I can in principle take my headphones off when the compressor is not active... But with headphones on, it's hard to notice when the compressor stops!

This project shows a live spectrogram of the audio picked up by your computer microphone, using NumPy to compute the spectrogram and Pulseaudio's parec program to record audio. There's a companion program that listens for the noise level in the 50-55 Hz band and emits a desktop notification using notify-send when the noise levels drops below -18 dB, telling you to take off your headphones to let your ears get some rest.

This solves my very specific problem, but the spectrogram is somehow very soothing to watch, so I thought I would share it here. Who knows, maybe I'm not the only one with a home office right next to a noisy refrigerator!
Great stuff. After using datatables in Python, I was excited by the performance but disappointed by the support (hey, everyone has different priorities). I had started my own DataFrame library in Rust that could be used as a pandas corollary/drop in. I wanted out-of-core, efficiency, threading, memmapping, and sql also! My long-abandoned implementation was a SQLite wrapper, as opposed to Arrow, but this looks exciting. Will be watching.
We already have SC (if expensive to run), how does room temp SC make fusion possible where it wasn’t before?
Notably any time I download an mp3 file it automatically launches Music.app and imports the mp3 as a music track.

Nevermind it's a short 1-sentence speech to text I generated for a language learning app.
I think they have done that. The catch is that these scientists are likely to take their time, because they want to produce something with weight behind it. This isn't lab #5234's attempt to reproduce it which showed some weird behavior that might be a success, this is the expert report on the original material giving second opinion on how valid the first's claim is. That needs to have more care, which means more thoroughness doing the research and more time spent writing up the final result with care. If lab #5234's attempt ends up being a false positive or experimental error, it will be one of many and won't mean much, but if this particular report is wrong or has a major error, that is going to be impactful in a negative way.
This tool is underrated. Failing to deal with units conversion already crashed a Mars probe: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-01-mn-17288...

I wonder if the recent problem with the voyager was due to something like this, for example, 2 arcminutes or 2*pi radians being mistaken for 2 degrees.
The persistence of prog rock (2017)
The title appears to match the one on the article (unless they're doing some title fuzzing)?
"Real" competitors as in having any amount of market share, no. But there are a few projects, like ladybird, palemoon (which is a fork of ancient FF which does have original implementations of things that came since) and Servo is being revived.
Could this be the best way to backup your data?
The archive is located underground on Svalbard.
Just more reasons to eat a plant based diet.
That's a pretty good reason. Some people might react "well, you're going to need those things broken out anyway as you scale" or something to that effect, but it can be really nice to just not need them until you have scaled further. There are plenty of smaller applications where you just don't want or need all the extras and the longer you can keep it simpler, the better off you are.
Mobile imgur is really bad. It doesn't allow hotlinking, has a lot of annoying ads and other content, sometimes automatic quality degradation, and at one point they even hijacked the back button. We should just use something like abload.de or similar.
8.8.8.8 has documented rate limiting [0], but it may be higher than you're hitting.

[0] https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/isp
Who are the worlds biggest landowners
Cool, then what practical solution do you propose? Wait around while things get worse?
National Lab results support LK-99 as a room-temperature ambient-press sc
> X needs to be like Uber but for X

I laughed
That doesn't count since there is no way to harness the energy. In that sense we've had H-bombs for 60+ years.
Pretty much.

I like hacking away. Writing code, configuring stuff, figuring out obscure bugs. I reached a point as a fullstack dev where I could build a complete app, deploy it and maintain it.

But now I feel like I need to market myself. I also hate it.

I worked with someone who was a lot less technical than me. Would get stuck for days on bugs I would fix in 15 minutes by just doing a few googles searches. What he was better at is marketing. He paid someone to write his resume. Paid someone to "reimagine" his linked in.

He landed a 50% increase by moving companies.

I guess paying someone to improve your resume and linkedin is a good idea. Starting a blog, having social accounts, etc. also seems like something one should to do to maximize their earning potential.
Article says "meat industry", HN title says "food industry", unless we're getting AB tested.
The power that flows from value creation is “mild”, whereas the power that flows from political acumen is “direct and high”? Man cmon. Power is power. Have you not noticed the entire lobbying industry and who pays for the majority of it?
China’s Latest Problem: People Don’t Want to Go There
A real life application of Odysseus's Oar. I have mentored junior devs who have "heard" of SVN and also think CVS is just a pharmacy. It was a real gut-punch the first time.
When you think about it, this is pretty depressing statistic for anyone interested in decentralized/libre services. It's trivial to run recursive resolvers yourself, and this demonstrates just how much people can't be bothered.

(and heading off the inevitable "but that increases the load on the authoritative servers" - this is only relevant to my comment if you're arguing that people are consciously choosing to outsource DNS because of this concern)
https://archive.is/o4sKW
> 2.2 percent of the compensation of Google's CEO.

lol another way of framing that is that her compensation makes up something like 30-40% of all user donations made to Mozilla. I think that's far more relevant than whatever Google's CEO makes.

> If this is your argument for not using Firefox, then it does read like the reason you're not using it is that it isn't popular with others.

All of my points are supporting my overall issue - that Mozilla can not execute on its mission effectively while their current CEO is in place.

The absolute failure to maintain market share is obviously quite relevant. If market share didn't matter in order to advance an ideology then we wouldn't be in this situation right now and there would be no reason for me to switch anyway.

So no, I'm not going to make a decision to support a browser that has one benefit to me - its ideology - when their leader is obviously incapable of executing effectively on that ideology. If they remove her as CEO then maybe someone who is effective can take place, at which point my support puts ideology back on the table and I'll consider switching.
For me the title of the article is "The Cartel That Controls the US Meat Industry".
VDI makes far more sense for most people

It's [effectively] what a Chromebook is
Yea this is as classic fallacy.

This famous talk outlines it: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html but theres a huge amount of factors that go into becoming one of those guys.

Its not just talent, or desire, or luck.

Its:

- Talent - obviously have to be really good to even do anything in the first place
- Vision - Need to have a goal of some sort to accomplish something
- Decision making - The goal needs to actually be something the world finds useful.
- Drive - Be able to take constant set backs and negative feedback and believe in yourself to an almost delusional level.
- Consistency - This means doing and thinking about your "thing" for a REALLY REALLY long time. Like weekends and holidays and ignore family and etc...

The talk above goes into it pretty in depth, but theres no mystery about it. You need ALL those things and no less. People who achieve at this level aren't accidents. They are simply not only talented in their fields, but also in areas of being able to consume volumes of information and handle failures. They're the ones getting up at 6AM every day working and thinking about their "problem" and going to bed dreaming about it, for years.

You can be a 10x developer, but you also need to be 10x in several other areas to actually accomplish valuable things. Theres a grand canyon of difference between them and everyone else.
It would be fine if KPMG were simply the devil. The western "devil" is usually portrayed as clever and skillfully working toward some hidden goal. But this document shows they are more akin to a Lovecraftian blind idiot-god, shooting technology tendrils one way or another, randomly finding purchase upon the rocks and consuming the unwary.
Not doing that is cheaper and there's no regulation that forces companies to do those audits to get things released. We live in capitalism where cheaper wins.
Yes, same here, but I think that is the first .com.
Danke.

I was very surprised when I first found out about the local phrase, "Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache".
First, a utility number that I send myself programmatic alerts[1] and do general messaging management with has broken entirely and it is certainly the result of A2P 10DLC and my "failure" to create a business entity for sending reminders to myself.

Second, the messaging - both email alerts and direct from customer support - has been crystal clear:

ALL SMS is a campaign. It is all spam. You need to register and qualify and opt-out your spam or you can't send your spam.

So yes, actual problems.

[1] Again, Jeff, what kind of (required) opt-out message should I craft for myself ? What if the third party ad-industry working group doesn't approve of my unsubscribe methods that I give to myself ?
Myself if I stay away from any cannabis projects for about two weeks I can almost forget that the stuff exists. However, if I have the stuff around I find it almost impossible to say no and I rapidly dose escalate. My guess is that cannabis smoking has both an irritating and anti-inflammatory effect so if I am smoking my breathing is OK and if I am away for two weeks I am OK but my breathing gets bad maybe 4-5 days after quitting. A vape just doesn’t do it for me.
Yes, the 1500 QPS is very hard to hit compared to 10 QPS ;-)
That's what I would suggest as well. WSL2 and use asdf[1] to manage the erlang/elixir versions.

You could also use containers pretty easily as well with docker or podman for windows and the official Elixir images[2].

[1]: https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf

[2]: https://hub.docker.com/_/elixir
What is the easiest/trouble free way of hosting my own local DNS? It seems silly how frequently I leak web browsing habits to a third party.
For those looking for a CF alternative, I have my .dev at Porkbun and am happy with them.
That first place sounds awesome
A very limited pool could imply <100 people total, alive, who are capable of doing the work.
> My kids had about a million dollars in NICU costs from being three months early.

Except the true cost of that NICU stay was not a million dollars.

> I take a $18,800 shot every twelve weeks.

The true cost of that medication is not $80,000 a year, including R&D. Particularly for patients who needs meds like that indefinitely.

Pfizer claims that it effectively is profitable everywhere in the world but the US, its base: That of its nearly $40B profits last year, less than $5B was earned in the US, despite its US sales being nearly $50B of it's $100B global revenue (do that math, they say that selling $50B of drugs in the ROW earned them $40B in profit, yet the same sales in the US netted only $5B in profit...) - they're offshoring all their finances, basically.

Big Pharma likes to peddle the myth that all their R&D takes place in the US, hence the costs. That's all it is, a myth. They do significant R&D in the US, sure, and about the same elsewhere in the world. And most of their R&D isn't from first principles, but often leverages publicly funded research in universities and government/quasi-government orgs.
Mixed reviews so far. I've had one person say the Hebrew was brilliant, and one say that it was terrible. It seems to be slightly less accurate than English, but good enough for most purposes
To all the pissy commentators on here - Average Monthly HOUSEHOLD Income in Kenya is around $145/month [0]

The fact that Sama's STARTING SALARY is almost $300/month is staggering.

That's the equivalent of being a SWE in the US (around $140k median salary) when the median salary in this country is around $65-70k/yr.

Also, at $300/month I could hire plenty of English speaking moderators and labelers in Central/Southern Phillipines or Madhya Pradesh/Bihar and not have to deal with level of instability Kenya has. They're honestly lucky Sama even chose Kenya as a base to operate instead of going with Infosys or the Pinoy equivalent (if anyone has experience with the PH BPO industry, I'd love to learn more)

[0] - https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/economy/kenyans-avera...
Show HN: Hydra 1.0 – open-source column-oriented Postgres
hi hn, hydra ceo here

hydra is an open source, column-oriented postgres. you can set up remarkably fast aggregates on your project in minutes to query billions of rows instantly.

postgres is great, but aggregates can take minutes to hours to return results on large data sets. long-running analytical queries hog database resources and degrade performance. use hydra to run much faster analytics on postgres without making code changes. data is automatically loaded into columnar format and compressed. connect to hydra with your preferred postgres client (psql, dbeaver, etc).

following 4 months of development on hydra v0.3.0-alpha, our team is proud to share our first major version release. hydra 1.0 is under active development, but ready for use and feedback. we’re aiming to release 1.0 into general availability (ga) soon.

for testing, try the hydra free tier to create a column-oriented postgres instance on the cloud. https://dashboard.hydra.so/signup
If I lose my phone I get a replacement simcard from my provider in a day or two, and SMS continues to work

If I lose my phone I've lost all my various OTP authenticator apps - I don't think they are backed up to icloud
Would the Ames test even make sense, given that bacteria don't have PCNA?
nix-darwin also handles this fairly nicely.

The built-in options are listed in the modules docs starting here: https://daiderd.com/nix-darwin/manual/index.html#opt-system....

but you can also define custom ones without writing new modules via CustomPreferences and CustomSystemPreferences: https://daiderd.com/nix-darwin/manual/index.html#opt-system....

I track all of my `defaults` settings (aside from power management) in version control this way on my work machine. :)
> This is handled by IP, the Internet Protocol, whence IP addresses.

This is grammatically nonsense. Correct would be “whence IP addresses come”. Or, “from where IP addresses come”, if you want to write like somebody normal

One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone uses obscure words like “whence” in an effort to flex their knowledge - and it’s even worse when they actually use it wrong. Almost made me stop reading the article. Although I’m glad I didn’t, because the rest of the article is great.
Ya, this is one big bonus in my eyes. I have certainly hear the argument several times that "installing redis is really easy" and it is! But it's another moving part that often isn't necessary with BEAM.

In a current project I'm also able to use OTP to create a single microservice for my monolith that runs on its own node and the two can communicate with run-of-the-mill message passing without the need for an HTTP API.
The total goes up because not everyone loses wealth at each round. Wealth just gets more concentrated in the hands of the people who win the most.

Also, "5% per round" assumes an infinite number of people. If you run this with 100 people, by the 3rd round, the expected group sizes are non-integers, so you will diverge from the "infinite people" case.
Or just use iOS and text, take photos, and use big name apps only like IG.

I used to be into phones. These days I use $150-200 used iPhone SE (2020). Don’t care if I drop it or break it. And it takes decent photos (not amazing, not terrible). And it’s small.
Back to dumb terminals? Sounds like a win to me :) why not? Heard something a long time ago that's been stuck in my head ever since -- that 95% of users are probably just using their machines as bootloaders for Google Chrome anyway, so.