skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather use a stone tablet than freaking XML!!

I will never understand your problem with it. JSON or YAML should be enough for 90% use cases. And INI or TOML the rest. Let the XML relic rest in peace please.
MongoDB:

a) has a proven, supported, easy-to-use horizontal scaling solution. PostgreSQL doesn't.

b) is ridiculously faster than PostgreSQL at per-tuple document updates.

c) has clients which are tailored for operations and data structures around documents.

d) is easier to install, configure and manage.
Evil is real. It is a good thing to fight evil.

It helps in the fight against evil if you understand that evil lies to people, and convinces people that they are the victims.
They asked to 3d-scan my face and harvest my identifying biometrics. So I closed my account and walked away.

If anyone's curious, this is the product Hetzner were using at the time:

https://www.idenfy.com/identity-verification-service/
I have a Logitech cam too and it's been trouble free with a great picture, though for some reason it does seem to take longer to start streaming on my iPhone than the other cameras. I was really hoping for some big improvements in Home / HomeKit with iOS 17 but alas, no.
Also useful to remember that Ventoy [1] will solve 95% of your problems by creating a pendrive where you can put multiple ISOs and select at boot which one to run.

[1] https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
Robocall scammers sentenced in US after netting $1.2M via Indian call centers
Ventoy – boot multiple ISOs from pendrive
The question is whether there will ever be an affordable used market for EVs (comparable with the used ICE vehicle market), due to the high price of new vehicles combined with battery degradation.

Will EVs have the multi-decade lifespan of a well-maintained ICE vehicle, or will they be on the scrapheap much sooner due to battery longevity issues, or repair-hostile practices as cars move ever further into 'tech product' status, unrepairable without proprietary tools/information/parts.

Meanwhile, the world seems to be getting ever more hostile to personal light EVs (e-scooters/bikes/skateboards)
Whereas you have Oracle Cloud (and its highly generous free tier) which seems to apply the inverse policy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_retention

the EU directive was invalidated, but member states still hold on to all the data.

for example: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/data-retention-france-illeg....
I didn't explain enough and thank you for clarification! I think the problem will be that I will not get the project which is using MinIO right now to comply with AGPL.
That's pretty descriminating
For a long while Pocket Earth Pro trumped Organic Maps and OSMand. It's still very fast. Walking routes in Europe are excellent. No traffic, which is not important, I find. Unfortunately it also appears to be abandonware.
Searching for said research has proven unfruitful, perhaps a link?
That don't compare since wildfires are releasing carbon that is part of the natural cycle while transportation is adding to the natural cycle. What is released from wildfires are soon absorbed by new forest growing where the old was
He took the doctorate degree in Europe. He gained a PhD in Physics.

"Doctor of Philosophy" (PhD): a doctorate in just about any subject except law or medicine.

"Doctor of Letters" (D.Lit.): a doctorate in Law.

"Doctor of Medicine" (D.Med.): a doctorate in medicine.
Exactly. I agree. I also find it surprising when people talk negatively about certain companies or capitalism in general, but then continue to spend a lot on various products including the companies they criticize. Companies are not making money up (apart from some fraud cases like Enron).
Christophe Massiot had a great talk at FOSDEM last year about the pros and cons of different network options including SR-IOV in a VM environment, especially the challenges of multicast

https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/om_virt/
The problem with using a general-purpose programming language for configuration is that you lose the ability to statically interpret it. Maybe one solution is to make sure the configuration SDK is fully side effect free, so that it's always easy to run the configuration with fixed inputs and get a deterministic output.
And 2 years later, if some words in your account username or description age badly, your house will go dark forever.
I think by “buyer” they mean the phone manufacturer buying parts
Oh. I didn’t take the “teacher” part seriously. I assumed it to he a professor. My bad.
I think the point was - if the BBC (closely tied with the political establishment) cared so much about children's safety they would have acted against Saville before they were compelled.
I’m dumb, is the only reason this couldn’t be done on an iPhone because the iPad has usbc?
Show HN: Python Patch and Mock Examples
Im always forgetting how to use Patching and Mocking in python, so created a small MWE to remind myself of how to do it. Turns out it can do more than I thought.

Just posting her in case anyone else is always forgetting and needs a reference.
You're implying that those languages made actual building products easier. I think we know by now they didn't. Go is a language which preaches building your boilerplate than reusing it. Produces very little of the economies of scale requires to build compelling products. It has other advantages, and the single binary thing captured a niche in infrastructure software, but that's it outside of Google. Rust is still young, jury is out, but it's already considered a big and hard to learn language, and that's not going to change soon. It'll eventually find a niche.

Ruby is still a great way to start it up. Consider that in 2006-2008, it's deployment story was horrible. Since then, the ruby ecosystem bootstrapped lockfiles, 12 factor app manifesto, and a lot of the conventions we all take for granted nowadays. And while there are certainly enough arguments to bikeshed on, its still a rock solid ecosystem.
Reminds me of that trip report of a road trip through Canada I stumbled across a while ago (start here if you have some time to spare for some reading: https://mrgris.com/travel/blog/labrador/), which also included a visit to Estcourt (https://mrgris.com/travel/blog/labrador/3/), which has one of those slightly unusual border situations with most of the village in Canada and only a couple of houses in the US (and then nothing but miles and miles of forest until the rest of Maine – so the border post only serves the logging traffic and those few houses).

The US border guards at that occasion where highly suspicious and questioned them for three quarters of an hour, whereas the Canadian official was indeed quite lovely and commented about his US colleagues that "ah yes, they have a… different frame of mind."
An INI Critique of TOML (2021)
Imagine having to create an account to use a lightbulb. It's all gone too far.
The lack of trailing commas isn't the problem. The problem is the intermediary commas.

Those are used in JavaScript to give you the option to provide an expression in place of a single term. But that's not even allowed in JSON, so the commas aren't serving any purpose at all.
I agree, and I think this should not be underestimated: people who don't believe in public transportation often (usually?) don't use them.

I have never owned a car, I used public transportation my whole life. Trains, buses, publicly-available bikes/scooters, whatever. Occasionally I rent a car. And I am fine, I have just learned to organize around the public transport. Instead of being free to leave or arrive "whenever I want", I know exactly the time (so I'm usually not 20 minutes late because I had a train, where car owners are easily stuck in traffic or left 20 minutes late).

Yes, many times it is longer. But I learned to use the time I spend in public transportation: I read, I listen to podcasts, I work. When a car owner loses 2h30 in traffic, I work for 4h in my train. They lost 2h30, I... well if I can count those 4h as work, I didn't lose anything. I find that even reading is a better use of my time than driving.

But all my life, car owners around me (friends/family) have had trouble understanding that I am fine with public transportation. "Wait, take my car, it will be much longer by train!" or "Do you want me (to drive 30min) to come pick you up so that you don't have to come by bus (which takes 45min)?".

Sometimes it's longer, sometimes it's more annoying, sometimes it's more expensive. Many times it's better, too. It's just different, I just learned the public transportation way. The fact, though, is that it's better for the planet.
my understanding is that in fortran, if two arguments alias each other, it is UB. So it is not that fortran doesn't have aliasing, it is just that the optimizer assume that it doesn't (but don't quote me on this!).
I think a wired Apple TV and lots of wifi coverage for the cameras help a lot. Wireless home hub does not perform the same.
Isn't mongodb open source?

https://github.com/mongodb/mongo

Edit: ah it's source-available, not open source.
You can do a master in CS even without a CS bachelor online at the University of Colorado Boulder via Coursera. You just need to take 2 classes and get at least B in each.

https://www.colorado.edu/cs/academics/online-programs/mscs-c...

But as they say, this will only put you on the radar, but then it's all about LeetCode-Hard and -Medium and system design.
Thats actually why it can be easier to have it prescribed if the hair angle isn't enough for your Dr. Lots of guys have enlarged prostates at that point or difficulties urinating that can be leveraged into a legit medical rationale, although I find it irritating we need to play these games at all.
For context, that's not a fact fact - that's a statement (that may be true or false) by a cadre of Brazilian biologists.

And a very qualified statement at that. Barely a sentence later ...

Despite this promise, the antiviral activity of ivermectin has not been consistently proven in vivo.

ie. Never repeatedly proven in living organisms (animals or humans).

By "demonstrated antiviral activity" they specifically mean that in places such as Brazil (and elsewhere) large spectrum courses of Ivermectin are positively correlated and associated with reduced viral activity (fewer sick and fewer dead from influezenza, covid, etc).

Does that mean that Ivermectin "kills" (or harms) COVID directly?

Nope.

It does mean (or rather strongly implies) that in places with relatively wide spread parasites in water, etc treating parasites improves community health.

Fewer parasites, better immune systems, nore people can fight off the effects of the flu, COVID, etc.

Who'd have thought, hey?
Do you think its a coincidence this came right after the ban on incandescent bulbs? Regulation got us here. It won't help when government is captured.
This paragraph left me with the impression that Charlie Munger has a chip on his shoulder about academia.
Which I completely agree with, the message was more that they are already restricted on what they can purchase, and people searching for cigarettes as an allowed purchase does not stop the main point that their spending is already managed.
For OpenBSD in particular, security baked into the core.
Could this be a reaction to RedHat’s latest position on RHEL rebuilders? Did kernel devs see RH as freeloading on the LTS kernels?
> The politicians passing this stuff are literally the least qualified people to discuss anything tech related.

That kind of ranting goes too far. Why the exaggerations? I count three. It only serves to drive the dislike against politics, and thus anti-democratic tendencies.
Show HN: Jdmbs – Derivative Pricing Algorithm with Correlational Companies in R
An R Package for Monte Carlo Option Pricing Algorithm for Jump Diffusion Models with Correlational Companies.
It was 30 euros for me.
Next stop, Europa? Nano subs to get test beneath Antarctic ice in 2026
Panama FFI has a tool called jextract that parses C headers and writes the Java bindings for you.
The often forgotten assumption of the "calories out minus calories in is all we need to look at" is that the metabolic rate is independant of the kind of food we ingest.

There is also food => inflammation change => body water gain/loss.
get a zigbee stick and set an old PC/server up with home-assistant.io (i use conbee 2 stick)
DreamBerd 2: Sequel to the perfect programming language
I believe Android has a duress pin starting in version 5 or 6, under advance settings. This is probably ideal for what you're talking about.

Start with prevention though - don't have the newest most expensive phone, don't make yourself look like an easy victim (distracted, alone, scared, weak), don't go to bad neighborhoods if it can be avoided, learn some self defense. If armed robbery is really a pressing concern there are options in many places to meet that threat with similar force. There are some criminals that will kill you even after getting what they want. That was happening in my city a while back, and I'm sure it occasionally still does.
https://archive.ph/B4w5q
Their disinterest arises from politicians and local police also benefiting from these scammers' earnings.
it's from the friedman/thatcher-esque neoliberal playbook.

manufacture a crisis that creates the scenarios which are most pliable for the policies you want to impose.

or as chomsky called it "manufacturing consent"

UK has had 15 years of getting battered with elite-imposed financial austerity, and the outcome.....brexit. says it all.
I'm currently travelling around Asia, simply not going places where there's a non zero risk of being robbed unfortunately isn't an option.

The spare phone is a good idea, unless you get patted down I guess
That only happened cause the disk appeared uninitialized to windows. Though I agree that it shouldn't touch any disks that aren't the install destination.
Just use endeavourOS, it's basically arch with a nice installer and sane defaults.
I mean - if you separate your html from your assets security wise, that naturally means they need to be on different hosts, as you cannot really reroute requests before TLS decryption based on paths or any other indicator.

But the motivation to put stuff on a CDN would be to improve performance. If you put your HTML on your own HW and your assets on a CDN for performance reasons, you might want to check if that really pans out, because those extra roundtrips may kill all performance savings you get from the CDN.
It depends on the region. In Lithuania address data is automatically updated in OSM from official sources while Google Maps may not show current addresses which were added or changed for years.
Overall, we should look why every country on earth does not provide constantly updated map data publicly for free. I doubt that fees collected from sale of map data come near the cost of missed deliveries, burned energy and time to wander around in order to find locate desired destination.
I didn’t think of a single one of those points. The kerfuffle makes way more sense to me now. I wouldn’t take the deal either. Thanks!
I have over 100 Coursera/edX/Udacity certificates and work on the bleeding edge of tech (AI). MIT's Underactuated Robotics got me into the first cohort of Udacity's Self-driving Car Nanodegree. I think you are shooting yourself in the feet if you plainly reject people like me who just want to keep learning new things.
That's a good point, thanks. However, as demand drops so does the unity of such cartels. Less demand will likely destabilize those arrangements. In this case, raising prices to compensate for drop in demand is self defeating as it makes alternatives more cost effective. At some point there's a tipping point where volume is the only option (to make up for less demand).

We'll see. It's complicated. And if you or I could predict the future...we'd not be on HN guessing :)
This should get more coverage, as it's a worrying development. The tone of the letter is disturbing.

Surprisingly enough, the mainstream media haven't covered it at all ...
> People say they want organic, but then they balk at the price without realizing how much labor goes into it

I think the way out for this is won’t be to make people grow their own food at small scale, but to make big farms use less labor for organic pharming. Farming robots are getting better and cheaper, electricity from solar is getting cheaper, so chances are those robots will compete with manual labor at some time, probably already now in some cases.

You can buy robots that zap weeds with lasers, for example. https://carbonrobotics.com/ claims a 1-3 year payback.
Edge caching often has to support purge-by-tag which ends up working similarly.
Github actions is fine provided you keep the YAML as short as possible and try to call out to a normal script to do everything - i.e. use it as config.

The problem comes when you try to use it as a programming language in and of itself (which MS encourages because it's a route to vendor lock in). It's a shitty, shitty programming language with shitty debugging tools.
Same. Recently discovered that Starbucks serves child-labour coffee owned by Nestle. [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/01/children-wo...
Prototxt/protobuffers for the win. Seriously though, having the definitions that validate your message is awesome.
Without clear evidence, I wouldn't attribute this to people becoming healthier. The increasing availability of alternatives (i.e. legal marijuana) and demographic changes seem like more probable factors, as the article suggests.

A more controversial claim might be that decreasing levels of socialization, or shifting leisure preferences, among the youth also factor in. There have been plenty of studies in recent years that explore the seemingly-relevant decrease in sexual activity within that age group, for example (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=young+p...).
Except for the fact that it's nothing like that it's exactly like that.

It's a ridiculous effort by the Indian government that is trying to bury it's awful mismanagement of the economy at a time when nearly every factor is in India's favor (never again will India find basically every Western and non-Western leader basically begging for its support economically and geopolitically, a result of the series of massive own goals by China) by stoking crass nationalism and pretending to be a big bully on the world stage.

But there's nothing racist in the name's origin itself.
This is what I was getting at - it is impossible for us underlings to imagine what it is like to have the grasp of power over millions of individuals and innumerable resources. We might experience something of it if someone comes to us for help, clueless, and sense we can say or do certain things that would profit us at the expense of the needy person.

Even if the political class don't rationally understand everything they do, they are very good at dressing their apelike dominance-pleasure in saleable words instead of naked aggression, because modern politicians are essentially just trained PR mouthpieces. What they are doing feels right, and that's enough reason to continue because they are addicted to power, one of the most addictive things we can experience. It's perverse and we're all trapped in it.
Unfortunately I see rather few people doing serious optimizing knowledgeably at all in research computing. (I know how and where it's done well, of course.) That has global effects on productivity of users, though some of the biggest gains can come from more global optimization, like in the use of MPI.
Impunity

Cyber crime usually targets external countries and it brings money in to the local economy, so little incentive for the government to target it

Same as hackers in Russia having impunity as long as they're not targeting USSR countries
The paper you are citing does not support your argument here, I would suggest you to read for instance section 6.3 where they include some of the common concerns regarding client-side scanning, or the conclusion of section 7 ("Why AI and Machine Learning are not the answer").
My question exactly. No sense building a house on someone else's land. Too many projects I've worked on were shattered because of technology that stopped being offered or got too expensive to justify.
Oh. I know that. But why him. Why now. Or is it his household name-ness and the yet another distraction it creates?
First of all this isn’t about a product.

But if legislation would actually require the Linux kernel, say, to have LTS for??? every major release? Every point release? It’s bad law and should absolutely not exist. If I’m running a community project I have a big FU for anyone trying to impose support requirements on me. Which was actually a rather hot topic at an open source conference I was just at in Europe.
Is it paywalled? I can only see what looks like part of the article only.
> We actually don't know how the Sun does fusion. If we did, we'd have created it here on Earth already.

We know we can't do what the sun does here on Earth, and we also know that we don't want to what the sun does.

We can't, because the cube-square law means the sun stays hot enough for long enough for this to happen even though a reactor on the ground would cool down almost immediately.

We don't want to, because the reaction happens over the course of billions of years giving the sun a specific power output similar to rotting cabbages.
HN sometimes changes titles to make them less lurid, clickbait-y, etc. Whether that's a bot or not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In this case, the modified title utilizes the more descriptive language of the article's subtitle. Editors edit.
I thought all those points died along with the hype ("MongoDB is web scale"), as all were wrong.

Those were the marketing points people mentioned in their "honeymoon phase" posts. Then after using it in production, actual benchmarks and comparisons coming in, came the regret and moving on posts. In fact, most of those mentioned moving from Mongo to Postgres, and there was a full blow "yeah, NoSQL was a dumb idea for 99% of use cases, and Mongo even more so" discussion.

In the end MongoDB was the butt of a joke, there were whole memes about it.

So this comment is like a trip down memory lane, or into an alternate universe, where it's like 2012 and these things never happened.
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Thanks a lot, didn't know this guy.
Seems somewhat similar territory given the relation to dyadic rationals and real numbers goals - what would be the comparison to Unum in your estimation?
Namely because it would have been too obvious. To have this work, that person would have to have set limits well below anyone else. So low that it would have been obvious when someone just so happened to offer BTC at a much reduced price.

There is nothing that says the BTC “mistake” wasn’t a fraud. But for it to have worked (and you’d only have one shot), the setup would have needed to be clear to outside observers.

The other argument for it being a mistake is that if you really wanted to have exploited Alameda/FTX (not sure which, or if there was a distinction), the person could have tried to take more. The amount is small enough to be a “mistake”, but not large enough to make the higher ups question it. Maybe the gains would have been enough for a corrupt party, but something makes me doubt it.
I'm not apathetic, I write to my MP, and I tell my non-techie friends about the implications. I donate to the EFF (used to donate to ORG until they decided other issues are more important than this one...). Still, nothing is done, and the slow decline into authortarianism continues.

What do you do?
I genuinely don't see a logic chain of reasoning from you. 250 calories is massive. If someone were worried about calories they wouldn't be eating something that's over 10% of their daily allowance.

The "it's less fat than cheese" isn't a calorie thing. You seem to be mixing things up.
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