skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found LTE to be both faster and more reliable where I'm attached to a tower that provides LTE and UMTS in the same band (e.g. the 2degrees network in New Zealand uses the 900 MHz band for both UMTS and LTE at many of their sites). UMTS has remarkably poor peformance at the cell edge where it at best data connections can only deliver a few kilobits at random intervals whereas LTE provides a reliable and consistent data connection even if it is only 100kbps. I've seen LTE maintain a stable connection at signal levels where GSM would have long since dropped the connection and UMTS would struggle. Makes stuff like emails usable at the far edge of LTE coverage where it's impossible to achieve the same off the UMTS signal from the same tower in the same band. It's so good I hate it when my phone falls back to UMTS in places I know full well LTE service exists. Thankfully all three carries in my country are planning to switch off UMTS in the next two years which will greatly improve service.
> The same company that said "You're holding it wrong" when there was a design defect causing calls to drop out.

Reminder: this was never said.
Tell HN: Swiss surveillance monitoring nearly everything – impact on Proton etc?
Hi,

looks like the news are not available in english language (you have to translate the links below).
Overall it doesn't give a good point on Switzerland as a country where you like to have your data hosted or to be a customer of a service?!

The Swiss federal government is monitoring nearly everything!
All people in Switzerland can be monitored by the secret service using so-called cable intelligence without cause or suspicion.

But what does that mean for services like Proton, Infomaniak, Migadu and other companies stating that Switzerland is one of the best countries concerning privacy laws?!
And does it make a difference when data is hosted in other countries like Migadu (OVH Servers in France) or Proton (Part of their servers is within Germany and they want to host servers within Norway)?

I'm really interested in how the companies will react and what impact it will have in reality?! In general, the whole thing doesn't look good!

By the way: Thanks a lot for all those people and organizations which participated on those story - you're doing great work!

https://www.republik.ch/2024/01/09/der-bund-ueberwacht-uns-a...

https://www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/2024/01/09/interessante...
This problem is everywhere, not just at Microsoft. I had to update our backup software, Veeam Backup & Replication to the latest version and the installation ISO is 9 GB in size! 9 GB for _backup software_.
The next person that says textual modalities gets it
Is all work on multimodal systems Let's Map Everything to a Shared Vector Space and See What Happens? Can a cross-modal interface be anything other than a feature map into vector space? Vectors work well for images. That's great. Good job! But if we're now going to start talking about multimodal everything I think we should first iron out what we're doing with language, admit that convenience and efficiency aren't what's most important and stop trying to force language onto something that will never work for it.

Recently I've been considering this in the context of work on document or visual question answering, i.e. the interface between images, the Steph Curry of machine learning research, and written language, ignoring speech/ audio signal processing. If you've interacted with a VQA model then you know it doesn't take much to see they have a long way to go. I think the way to push this forward and work in multimodal AI ("Advertising Intelligence") generally is to reconsider fundamental assumptions about what we're doing. Not endlessly Kaggling for benchmarks against the same datasets with variations on the same techniques for as long as Google and Stanford remain co-conspirators.

If anyone is aware of work here that they consider exemplary I'd love to know about it because all I can find are teams of people annotating nouns with bounding boxes and waxing poetic about textual modalities.
> Why not build static website generators that people can just unzip, upload to the shared hosting they’ve just paid for, and start using via a browser?

Indeed, why not let them copy a Word document without even zipping anything (maybe even with a button within Word itself to avoid files and folders)? No need to learn any new typesetting systems, Word in the knowledge a lot of non-tech folks have
I always think of the one golden rule of interface design to be:

Don’t make me think!
The generic term is “outbound firewall”.
Shell history is wiped out after user logged out for a reason. More details are here - https://www.securityhq.com/blog/security-101-dont-bash-your-....
Had no problems anywhere in the UK in recent years on 4G and I've been all over the place.

4G has been incredibly reliable for me. Even on a £10/month SIM only thing, I was up a volcano in the middle of nowhere in Iceland and able to make calls.
However, wages are considered operational expenses in most sane places - this change moves them to capital expenses, which makes no sense.
harder part is knowing the hacks from your dns provider that prevents things from working right.

I've spent two weeks on a domain with limited registrar options because their dns manager lied about supporting larger public keys in txt records.
But not suddenly, 15 years ago.
I think the reason you're finding it to be so stable is because nothing in that kernel has changed since Windows XP.
Good point. I don’t use red planet labs product myself either, but in a world where it is hard to get people to even consider your product the article did work
Landlines are being taken away by 2025.
what tool do you use to verify that every possible path your program, including all errors paths in dependencies, is executed?
Python really needs to fix this problem. The language is so full of warts that it's almost akin to the modern PHP.

I'm hoping for a Python version that makes this zen item [1] the number one priority:

> "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."

[1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0020/
Technology illiteracy, absenting a learning difficulty or other mental condition, should be inexcusable in 2034 and we should not force the state or businesses to cope with it.

Part of me thinks it's inexcusable now for people under a certain age. If you're 70 today in a developed country, you've had the internet for 20 years and a smartphone for at least 10. That's plenty of time.
Where is the source of this "Bejing institute"'s claim? That can at least show that they "claim" it "on behalf of" (the government of) China.

Is it me or the title seems problematic?
I don't know why "incredibly stable" is such a remarkable thing, the whole point of an operating system and a kernel is to offer a stable API to write your applications against.
What is "the modern western world"?

The Finns, Italians, and Californians by and large have a very different idea of "community".
You can be hopeful that war and economic turmoil will end.

Climate change only accelerates.
The truth? I even had no idea it existed! (my btc purchases on Coinbase predate it). Thanks, good to know!
Oh cnn you garbage site: “ We apologize, but your web browser is configured in such a way that it is preventing this site from implementing required components that protect your privacy and allow you to view and change your privacy settings. This functionality is required for privacy legislation in your region.”
Measuring productivity in a useful way is pretty close to impossible in a vast swath of jobs, though people make a killing (and make everyone involved considerably more miserable) pretending otherwise

The reason most people have converged on a preference for salaried work is that most jobs don't actually need consistency to be useful, but most people do need consistent pay to focus on a job
Why complicate things? Make a plan, start executing it, review and adjust. There's all there is to it.

If you put down hours in a mindful way towards your objective, you will progress, regardless if you want to learn to play piano, discover a revolutionary drug or get rich.
Until I started working at a SaaS company shipping to Windows enterprise customers I thought PowerShell wasn't used by anyone. Now I see it all the time. It's not fantastic, but if you're in the Windows world it beats writing CMD scripts.

As an end user though I imagine most people use bash or some other unix-world shell, especially post WSL. The "Git Bash" distribution is surprisingly useful as an everyday Windows shell.
Shame is absolutely a valuable tool for change. Without it society would not function since many of our 'rules' are self-enforced.
For you, maybe. Not for me. The trains between my airport and my home have a pretty much perfect safety record.
Call me crazy but I recall the Turris Omnia was 350 € last time I looked (~3 years ago). It could also take a fiber line as input, right?
Very fitting username.

You're not thinking like a hacker at all if you can't concoct theoretical ways that rich and powerful people might find themselves unexpectedly interconnected, and able to non-obviously do each other favors - perhaps even in round-robin fashion at times.
yeah, it was brilliant service.

Don't know the history of it but I didn't see a revenue model and they ended up pivoting around for something that would make money. Seems like there are certain ideas which are destined to be great services but not great businesses. We should figure out a way to put them into the public demesne where they can be collectively supported in a non-profit way, rather than see them die off after unsuccessful pivots
And the "for life" part?
The biggest problem with bookmarks isn't the bookmarking; it's the rediscoverability.

Tags and folders aren't even close to solve the problem of surfacing bookmarked links when they're needed.

And the only way to fix this, is to have them integrated into search. "You're looking for how to do X? Here's what I found on the internet. Also, you bookmarked these links about this topic, so check them out."

That, or a RAG based solution.
Nice, that's how I feel about it. For me Elix (https://component.kitchen/elix) is a good potential candidate (except that it's owned only by a few people). However, I've never used it and nobody is talking about (why?).
Nice, I didn’t even know that ZIP bombs existed! I have seen some huge spam traffic on servers I run in the past so this will be a good tool for me to use. Thanks
The solution is to have fines in place for insecurities and award them to discoverers.
>are there better paradigms for organizing links, documents, files, etc.?

I keep a Resources section in my knowledgebase across several categories (e.g. Career, Health, Dating) and mostly dump links there.

I don't know about others but I barely open any bookmarks or any links saved anywhere, but the value of this is more to re-discover niche resource links that would've been hard to find from scratch.
It looks like they have iRacing events quite frequently, https://24hoursoflemons.com/wtf-onlineracing/

You might also try Reddit (the iRacing) or the iRacing forums for like minded folks near your time zone(s).
Look up how to do mozzarella on Youtube (first result is a decent introduction).
After you do a batch the milk will still contain a lot of stuff.
You can then add 20% of this quantity of milk to that, and re-heat to make ricotta (which literally means re-cooked).
(Of course you can make ricotta directly from milk. On the other hand, not adding back some milk makes it difficult to get a good result.)

Look up a basic mozzarella making kit if you need the tools, but basically some cheese cloth and a thermometer are the only thing you might not have in a standard kitchen.

The most complicated might be to get some real milk (raw) for best results; if you don't, depending on the pasteurization process you might need to fortify the milk with calcium chloride.

I've eaten a lot of Italian industrial ricotta and the home-made stuff is just entirely on another level.
I am using https://tinygem.org/

Same thing, free, work like pinboard.in
A fair amount has been changed or added, I'd say. I recommend the Windows Internals book if you're interested in learning about the Windows kernel. The 7th edition just came out.
That's addressed in the post. There is some of that, but there are similar increases in hospitalisation for self-harm, which wouldn't be affected by an increase in awareness of mental illness.
On a tangent

> You’re reading a free article with opinions that may differ from The Motley Fool’s Premium Investing Services.

So they open this with a disclaimer that they wouldn't recommend trusting anything they say, because they may be misleading?
Finance is one example of a service based industry. Tourism is another, and there are plenty of countries with extensive tourism industries. There's also healthcare, hospitality in general, media, education, etc.

> And anyway, since most of the capital flowing through these small countries is foreign, it's subject to the restrictions of the countries of the origin. So it's not really Switzerland or Singapore's capital. The enslaving happens by 'financialization' of industries.

There are basically two ways to use other people's money: via debt or via equity. Those other people would either be your creditors or your shareholders.

When people use 'slavery' metaphors in the context of finance, they usually mean to say that debtors are the slaves of the creditors. You seem to imply that the notion is the other way round? That's somewhat peculiar.

For 'financialisation', I am going by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financialization and it doesn't seem particularly scary. Though different people seem to mean very different things by that word. Eg the introduction talks about increasing debt-to-equity ratios.

If you are worried about those ratios, ie about leverage, one targeted change you could make is to remove the tax advantage that debt enjoys over equity: companies typically get to pay interest with pre-tax dollars and have to pay dividends with post-tax dollars.

If you want companies to use relatively more equity and less debt, you should remove that subsidy of debt.

> But in a nutshell it means destroying industrial base for short-term gains and siphoning off of _existing_ wealth from the industry into finance.

How do you 'destroy' an 'industrial base for short-term gains'? Usually a short term focus in the economy means that interest rates are high. But I'm not quite sure how that fits here.
Not a service, but I can offer an opensource script to give a basic summary:
https://github.com/hannob/rpter

If there's demand, I could start a SaaS business for it :-)
TIL today: ZIP bombs are still a thing, 40 years after the first BBS.
I don't quite get how your second paragraph relates to the first one, could you please elaborate?

I honestly would consider myself a "fanatic of simplicity and dumb code", but for the simple reason that source code should stay easy to hack at all times. I want to enable "this kind of spontaneous, incremental technical improvements", and also want these hacks to pass code review (just add a "// HACK:" comment).

But in regard to kernel development I probably underestimate the inherent complexity of 1B+ SLOC bases.
> If you grab the list of admin users from /orgs/0/users, you can splice a new entry into it giving you full access to their Administrator dashboard.

I'm not clear on this. Splice a new entry into what? The list of admin users? And then do what with it?
They are to the companies or local administrations making money from them. City councils have some leverage on mobile operators by the means of national governments.

In general, each industry or other organizations hit by changes will be vocal against those changes. Countries implement them when everybody is OK with them or when the organizations not OK with them are politically too weak to matter.
Nope, shame is ineffective as a tool for change. More often people shut down or ignore you if you attempt to shame them than actually make the change you want. Besides, it's frequently just about vengeance anyway. Shame is really hate of other, for the most part.

As a tool for oppression however, yes it's quite effective.
My favoutite thing is when the unsubscibe page itself blocks my country due to GDPR...
Cease building dwellings using unsealed wood.
Techno-Optimism for 2024
GPT Store would probably have something like that soon.
I've done this without compression but just sending infinite data. On some days I've sent a TB to a single IP address... Might be an idea to combine this. I'd assume the resulting gzip file here contains a repeating pattern that you can generate on the fly?
Had it had a marked effect on the bots? Dropping *.php calls helped a lot.
I believe the founder, Joshua Schachter, should be the best person to answer that. He is also another active HackerNews user[1]. Unlike Flickr, I think, Delicious was never rescued from Yahoo!

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=joshu
Given WASM's goodness, has anyone built a WASM-cpu? that is, WASM as the assembly language (instead of x86, arm, risc-v)? Heck, does that even make sense?
This needs a 2013 tag, but its even more true today than it was back then, W11 feels like the absolute pinnacle of unoptimized code that is more interested in shiny new untested features vs giving us better performance.
Google is an advertising company. I’m sure they’re collecting quite a bit more then just your text input
We went rather quickly from a situation where it was quite easy to explain to kids what is expected of them - you hunt, survive or maintain a farm to survive - to a situation where the value of an action depends on a million things.

And, just to add yet another layer of complexity, there are few certain things about the future regarding what you need to know or do to thrive in it. Most jobs today might be obsolete by the time kids graduate. .
Maybe... But bashing the client on the day they patched because they haven't communicated is somewhat shaky. Bashing them a week later is totally cool in my books.
Pure B...t.
The title is deceiving and should be instead something along the lines of:
How to architect an application at Mastodon scale without relying on databases.
Also I would be very interested in seeing the actual technology rather than reading sensational claims about the unparalled level of scalability it supports.
What does it provide in order to recover from failure and exceptions and to guarantee consistency of state?

Relational databases are and will always be necessary as they provide a convenient model for querying, aggregating, joining and reporting data.

Much of the value in a database lies in how it supports extracting value from business information rather what extreme scalability features it supports.

Try to create a decent business report from events and then we can speak again.
Generative AI doesn't write books either, it's a machine spitting out results based on queries entered by a person. It has no personhood nor rights to ownership, in spite of what AI more crackpot advocates try to claim, it's more a very complicated pencil.
swiss companies never had a good reputation for this. the OG nsa scapegoat was swiss.
It seemed free roaming was still widely accepted in the 90s though? What changed since the 2000s?
There seems to be no mention of cost/pricing anywhere. Perhaps it's visible once signed up, as I presume it's not free if it's making money.
Is it legal to purposefully distribute a malicious payload as a booby trap?
You actually did claim there were two options in the comment I replied to by saying:

> You really dislike a feature that plays a loud sound instead of shorting pins in you USB-C connector together?

The instead here splits the sentence into those two options. Either a sound is played loudly or pins are shorted. That's how the sentence you wrote is structured, anyway.

Clearly that's not how you considered the situation, but yes, you did claim there were two options.
> shell history is usually littered with sensitive stuff

Atuin is trying to solve this one too :)

By default it won't save history containing AWS credentials, slack credentials, etc. The list of things to ignore is configurable with regex

While it's not difficult to avoid putting credentials into your shell, ik most people will just paste things in that perhaps they should not
It's just so damn fast and simple! And no GDPR banners and newsletter prompts! How do you make money? I can't see any pricing page.
The thing with the microservice + do separation problem is that by the time you’re forced to do it, the cost to migrate and split data out of a single source into many (potentially all at once) is extremely great. Last at work week a trio of services which rely on the same physical db had a problem where they were both locked out because of a problem with the logic in one of them. This caused an outage that lasted 5 hours and resulted in a (possible) loss of several months worth of their dev team’s funding. At a certain scale you try to proactively lessen the impact of possible events like these because the math works out.

If you’re at that scale, then great, do that. But I also fully agree that cargo-culting that kind of decision out of the gate can be a massive waste of money.
If it's relying on the cloud then you're better off using an app on your phone.
Yes. I self host my own remote git repositories for personal projects, so I can move commits between my machines without going through a third party.

My customers and nearly everybody else prefer a hosted solution like GitHub.
i confused, why don't you just create an app
I've been using fzf for this for years, but will check this out!
tbf in 2013 Powershell was a lot less powerful, and certainly didn't have the institutional support is does today.
https://42.zip served just that (after the 42.zip named on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb) until some ****hole reported it to Google/etc for.... phishing? Kinda sad, lol.

One of the arguments I've seen is: 'what if your antivirus scans it' to which I think: if your antivirus blows up on a zip bomb in 2024, you need a new antivirus that isn't total garbage?
That makes absolute sense.

The way it was overlooked by me is because a ‘bin’ is something you clear regularly, but deleted records will likely persist forever.

That being said; I once helped out a friend who’s computer became slow to a crawl, only to find out they’d never emptied their bin so storage had only a few GB of free space left.