skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it shouldn't change because it's easier, why did you make a point about it requiring work? Just admit your argument made no sense, instead of pretending your argument was just an irrelevant aside.

It does matter that it's easier. In fact it can be automated. If a user is inactive for 30 days, the subscription could be disabled and automatically reenabled if and when they decide to use it. You wanna argue that would be a lot of work to implement?

And yes, I think this would be reasonable for someone like Netflix, and unreasonable for a paper magazine. What's so hard to understand about that? they're just not comparable.
Show HN: Privacy oriented suite of web apps
Appscyborg is a privacy oriented suite of 78 web apps. The webpage are in the following categories:

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Just checked, interestingly it is still available for on demand order via other channels. Wonder if they still print it and only delist on their own frontend [0]. Maybe it is a bit of compensation if they profit from the Streisand effect.

Regarding Amazon I find it funny that they actually engage quite a few people e.g. for tech support of end users. I think they know where to optimize..

[0] https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/suggestartikel/A1067374317
Brazil and Guatemala in 2023.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/12/bernardo-are...

And Guyana against invasion by Venezuela.
Senior engineers with more than 8 years of experience are more likely to be of senior age. Age discrimination in the US is discriminatory actions affecting 40+ year olds.
I think because in a way, we are all weird more or less due to the incredibly strange society we live in, and Reiser was one of the few that blew up. So there are two levels of fascination: on one level, we are looking for insights about ourselves in his breakdown, and we also hope that we are different than him, which gives us hope that we can live through this society and not fall apart like he did.
I guess you can't do that without the full PGN. I guess the 50 move rule might be extraneous as well.
FYI - Was sampled in (at least) 25 songs, Was covered (at least) 7 times.

https://www.whosampled.com/The-Shangri-Las/Remember-(Walking...

I am not a number, I am a free man https://www.whosampled.com/Colourbox/Just-Give-%27Em-Whiskey...
ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2 ships out, chip shortages be damned
I think Ceph can be fine for NAS use cases, but be wary of latency and do some benchmarking. You may need more nodes/osds than you think to reach latency and throughput targets.
Malls/supermarkets in the US have relatively large parking spaces, why not cover them with solar panels first before taking over agricultural land? It would be more expensive than putting panels in an open field but should not be (much) more expensive than rooftop solar. It would allow to kill two birds with one stone - cars will be heated less under the canopy of solar panels.
Not related to Spotify, but managing http2 connections is much easier with async code than with sync, and http3 will be much the same. You can of course probably spawn a thread that handles these connections and use channels, but it's not going to be particularly pleasant to work with.

With the Spotify API before I have wanted to do concurrent API calls. One api call gives you a list of song IDs in a playlist, then you want to get all the song info for each ID. HTTP2 multiplexing would be much nicer than spawning 100 different http1 connections
That can't be it. Their are hundreds of books on Amazon with far worse words in the title.
The only defintion that matters is the practical definition that most people would think of, not what the “book” says. Whenever someone tells me “production is down” I think that customers are screwed. If they told me our internal email servers are down, I would smack them in the head cause my stress levels went up for nothing. Internal servers is not production.
I've spent thousands of dollars on Bandcamp over the past several years, attended many live shows, bought merchandise, etc. Suggesting that one is "pretending" to do these things when making this argument is a hell of a strawman. I feel like pretending that you're supporting your favorite artists by listening them on Spotify is a bit more of an appropriate comparison.
The lawyers produced "template" statements, that witnesses were supposed to complete by filling in the blanks. These templates included various forms of words that they wanted included, e.g. to avoid having to prove in court, for each case, that the Horizon software was behaving correctly. I don't think that amounts to "covering up" - after all, these lawyers were paid advocates for their client, the Post Office.

The real covering-up was the PO lawyers' failure to hand over to the defence evidence that might support the defence case. That's criminal (perverting the course of justice), and also, in the words of the appeal court judge, "an affront to justice".
He lied to their kids and told them that their mother had abandoned them.
My objective was to reduce average size, the example calculation I made is the max size
I've run Ceph at home since the jewel release. I migrated to it after running FreeNAS.

I use it for RBD volumes for my OpenStack cluster and for CephFS. With a total raw capacity of around 350TiB. Around 14 of that is nvme storage for RBD and CephFS metadata. The rest is rust. This is spread across 5 nodes.

I currently am only buying 20TB exos drives for rust. SMR and I think HSMR are both no goes for Ceph as are non enterprise SSDs, so storage is expensive. Ibdinhave a mix of disks though as the cluster has grown organically. So I have a few 6TB WD Reds in there, before their SMR shift.

My networks for OpenStack, Ceph and Ceph backend are all 10Gbps. With the flash storage when repairing I get about 8GiB/s a second. With rust it is around 270MiB/s. The bottle neck I think is due to 3 of the nodes running on first gen xeon-d boards, the the few Reds do slow things down too. The 4th node runs an AMD Rome CPU, and the newest an AMD Genoa cpu. So I am looking at about 5k CAD a node before disks. I colocate the MDS, OSDs and MONs, with 64GiB of ram each. Each node gets 6 rust, and 2 nvme drives.

Complexity is pretty simple. I deployed the initial iteration by hand, and then when cephadmin was released i converted it daemon by daemon smoothly. I find on the mailing lists and Reddit most of the people encountering problems deploy it via Proxmox and don't really understand Ceph because of it.
Netherlands which has an acute housing shortage? And not just in Amsterdam.

Maybe not the best idea to crowd the Eu's tech sector in an already crowded county. Why not a country with more free space, like France?
If you were to develop a device like that "properly", how would you do it? What kind of hardware and what software stack would one use?
Or rockets, which is mostly the work of the brain behind V2 missiles

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
Dunno, hating on Amazon (in particular, for their counterfeit item problem) seems to be a pretty common commenter topic on HN. That, and talking about how Google search results are terrible now.
Crawl-Space Computing by Lawrence J. Dickson [1]

Posting it here since the author has kindly allowed me to share this file with my colleagues in order to familiarize them with the ideas laid out in the book. Also, seems like the paper version is no longer available on Amazon, so I don't see any other way. Especially since the author's goal was to leave a heritage.

[1] http://pros.to/wide.pdf
I understand the obsession with being on Amazon, but can we please normalize selling elsewhere? The internet is a vast expanse. Why do we think Amazon is the end all be all? I do not understand this.
Or pretty much most big german industrial companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_...
I wrote an intro to Ceph[0] for those who are new to Ceph.

It featured in a Jeff Geerling video briefly recently :-)

[0]: Understanding Ceph: open-source scalable storage
https://louwrentius.com/understanding-ceph-open-source-scala...
> It's not often you see somebody apologize for killing their wife, explain their coding decisions around balanced trees versus extensible hashing, and suggest that elementary schools offer the same kinds of emotional intelligence curriculum that they've worked through in prison

That last part immediately jumped out to me and made me a bit sad. We have adults walking around with the emotional intelligence of toddlers, because nobody ever thought it might be important to impart that in a systematic way. Did we used to when society worked differently? Maybe, maybe not? I don't know and I'm certainly not one to argue that things used to be better in the old days. But I feel like we're failing our children by not emphasizing emotional intelligence more in schools. We've learned so much in recent decades about how to regulate emotion, how to handle emotional crises, suffering and pain. Schema therapy, DBT and ACT have only really become a widespread thing in the past 2 decades. Did any of us know about cognitive behavioral therapy a decade ago? There is so much we could be doing as a society to improve the mental health of so many people, but we just ... don't.
Anything that helps shake up the system is good for artists at this point.

It would be cool if this app helped you gauge how much to pay your favorite artists… If it logged the artists you listened to and then gave you something like a bill, periodically. The bill would show how minutes listened to for each artist over the past month and then would find links to buy their music directly. Even better this app would let you listen to that source music if you owned it.
AI-XOSS: A Proposal for AI Integration in Open Source Software Development
I tried to check your landing page, doesn't work.

I tried to view the YT video you posted here before, it was removed.

I tried to understand your USP from your post here, I didn't understand why would you try to sell something that secures non-HTTP connections, not sure what it even does.

All those considered, I don't think you can expect any interest if there is no information for your product, and all content posted is already dead.
I hope the first sentence refers to your own comment, because it indeed is a prime example of cognitive dissonance. I couldn't think of a better one.

You can be a rich idiot and delegate the actual work to smart people, that isn't a contradiction.

What you are demonstrating is cognitive dissonance, because it is Elon Musk himself that is presenting himself in a negative light and then you somehow pin his own public behaviour on the media.
Marx doesn’t fit in to this group. All he did of consequence was write books. Stalin, Mao, and George W Bush all directly or indirectly ordered the murder of millions. Marx just wrote theory which only when misapplied by a violent state led to suffering. Marx never killed anyone!

It seems to me to be a gross intellectual error to conflate Marx with mass murderers. Marx’s theories were popular among revolutionaries at the time of Lenin’s rise and he took advantage of that appeal when he styled himself a Marxist. But even then he created his own theories we call Marxist-Leninism, so called because they are not based purely on Marx.

To say Marx played any real part in mass murder is like saying the Nasis were socialists because they put “socialist” in their name - intellectually vacant. I implore you - do not put so much stock in the writing of someone who has led you down this path! There are better answers out there without these gross errors.
Is this concern hypothetical or something you actually had in (potential) customer conversations?
The Holy Grail is found in the Castle of Aggghhhh....
> Direct your passion for getting musicians paid to Spotify and the distribution system

Spotify pay 70% of their revenue back to the rights holders, leaving 30% for operating costs and profits. What percentages would you recommend, and what are you basing it on?
Ooooooh thanks that is actually super useful - had no idea this existed! Thank you!
you have to log in with setting bottom left "gear" to access your spotify data.
> MCU anyone

Visual paste.

I've done a little bit of cheesemaking, and I think it's very unusual for an average human immune system to get poisoned by cheese. You very quickly know if something's gone wrong in the process. Same goes for clabber, cultured butter, yoghurt, kefir. In fact I'd say raw milk is the greater risk.
IMO the next big computing device is glasses with fashionable look like Aviators or Ray Bans. A private screen, speaker, and finger tracking.

It could even be a glasses and a band you wear on wrist that accurately track finger motion even though fingers are not in view of the glasses.

You don’t want to look like a Glasshole - hence it needs to look normal and fashionable.

You definitely don’t want to be talking to it all the time. It’s not private and voice bandwidth is like 8 bytes / second. This is where rabbit and other devices get it wrong.

The reason iPhone took off was its touch sensitive and responsivess was above and beyond what anyone has. The homescreen app model is great UX.

I essentially want something like Meta Rayban with a screen and finger tracking. The fingers could be under a table while I am sitting and it should still work.

Essentially like the Apple Watch but for your eyes. Non-obtrusive, fashionable, highly responsive, full day operation.
I only managed to read this in full a bit after the other thread was posted.

Lots of interesting aspects to it, but one that stands out to me is how he is an example of an engineer who didn’t realise the importance of people skills.

I quite often see software developers who have an almost antagonistic attitude towards business, users and sometimes colleagues because they feel that their project failing to succeed is other people’s fault: “business didn’t give me the right requirements”, “users didn’t use the software in the correct way”, “all the other software developers are useless”.

This attitude may not get in the way of small scale solo projects, but for any non trivial sized project, it’s going to work very badly.

Significant sized projects require collaboration, you need to work well with others which may require compromise. Assuming that your organisation is not dysfunctional, it’s not unusual that requirements aren’t initially 100% clear, this is why software development is often an iterative process.

The most valuable software developers know how to work with others towards the common goal of making excellent software and the process can sometimes seem messy due having to work with many different kinds of people, but that’s the skill you need to rise above being a merely great coder, but one who can’t really work with a team.
If that's a concern, Unicode `Default_Ignorable_Code_Point` property [1] represents a set of characters that are suitable for steganography because they can be more or less safely ignored without affecting semantics. (And most of them even do not affect visuals, like higher variation selectors.)

[1] https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=[...:]
We probably wouldn't have kept calling it "Mussolini Bread".
So they started out pirating music and then decided they want to get rich from stolen culture while giving nothing back.
That is taking the whole pirate meme a bit too literally.
Funny this subject came up on yesterday's BBC QI show. I liked the poetic description of consciousness not as the driver of thought but as a compass needle that points the way the thoughts were going anyway.

I've not believed in free will for a long time, I think the idea is quite problematic at many levels. It implies that people would act out of character, that we don't make decisions based on inputs and internal feedback borne of experience, and that our brains don't follow known physics.

However, it's fine to act as if you have free will and so do others around you, even if one doesn't believe in it. You still need to run the universe to find out the future, so even disproving free will doesn't pragmatically change life.
HN has sadly become a bit of a #warezcentral. People demanding free stuff, either to train their ai models or for personal consumption.
For consumers, it's easy: Amazon offers a consistent effortless experience. They already have all your payment and shipping data, so no need to create accounts and passwords at some random site with unknown security standards, you know what to expect in terms of shipping vs whatever that random shop is using, no need to worry if the shop will be around in a year or two to honor warranties, no worry about bullshit surrounding returns, warranty claims or refunds.
It's relevant to the decision-makers: the people reviewing your resume.
GPT Store users breaking rules with 'girlfriend' bots
https://archive.ph/ZZAzN
Would you be interested in the paperback version of "Looks Like It's Fuck This Shit O'Clock"?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1092412743/
While I think this particular piece of (proposed) law is nuts, I think it’s just a dark mirror of the kinds of laws that compel companies to operate as commercial cover for espionage or unofficial foreign policy and break the law in foreign countries where they operate.

And if you think that the USA for example is not already quietly compelling subsidiaries of foreign firms to break the laws of their own home countries then I would suggest you consider why not.
So the only reason why people shouldn't get away with bad public behaviour is that they aren't a billionaire?

I think you are the bully here.
Please nobody needs such disclaimers. If people are not willing to pay for it, they won't pay it. If they are, they will do.
Also available here,

https://nightbeatseu.ca/works/the-sad-bastard-cookbook/

https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook

- "We made it legal with Creative Commons (4.0 attribution non-commercial), but if you get a thrill from breaking the law, you can pretend it’s not."
„compromise a legacy non-production test tenant account and gain a foothold, and then used the account’s permissions to access a very small percentage of Microsoft corporate email accounts, including members of our senior leadership team and employees in our cybersecurity, legal, and other functions, and exfiltrated some emails and attached documents.“

Does a non-production test account usually have permission to access email accounts of the senior leadership team? Is that a security best practice?
All the customers are there and the company has perhaps spent more time than any other figuring out how to sell books to people. They're better at it than everyone else.
> Direct your passion for getting musicians paid to Spotify and the distribution system, not to this.

How exactly do you do this ? What a dishonest comment to support stealing.
Wow, promising
Honest question, what's so bad about these bots?

If some lonely dudes can't find a girlfriend, so they talk to a chatbot instead, why is that bad?
How does Amazon handle warranties, especially in a year or two? Pray tell.
>How exactly do you do this

By reading the rest of my comment.

>What a dishonest comment to support stealing.

Copying is not theft.
I've learned calculus a few times in and out of school. I learned it best from a home-schooling focused text book. The author published a paper describing his notation [0]; see section 3 which is very readable.

The paper explains:

> Most calculus students glaze over the notation for higher derivatives, and few, if any, books bother to give any reasons behind what the notation means. It's important to go back and consider why the notation is what it is, and what the pieces are supposed to represent.

> In modern calculus, the derivative is always taken with respect to some variable. However, this is not strictly required, as the differential operation can be used in a context-free manner. The processes of taking a differential and solving for a derivative (i.e., some ratio of differentials) can be separated out into logically separate operations.

> In such an operation, instead of doing d/dx (taking the derivative with respect to the variable x), one would separate out performing the differential and dividing by dx as separate steps. Originally, in the Leibnizian conception of the differential, one did not even bother solving for derivatives, as they made little sense from the original geometric construction of them.

> For a simple example, the differential of x^3 can be found using a basic differential operator such that d(x^3) = 3x^2 dx. The derivative is simply the differential divided by dx. This would yield d(x^3)/dx = 3x^2.

Is this significantly different than what is normally taught in schools? Using the notation described here is the first time it has felt like a tool rather than a formality to me, and it's quite different than the way I was thinking while taking calculus in high school. I'm not really sure how unusual this notation is though?

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.09553.pdf
And that definition doesn't describe the Russian Federation. There are many nations within Russia, ones you may have heard of are Bashkortostan (in the news this month due to protests) and Chechnya (civil wars in the 1990s). It is not a homogeneous federation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republics_of_Russia
I can't speak to his skills - but in the eyes of a Hiring Manager reviewing his resume, it's worse than the majority. There is too much great laid-off talent out there.

It's not fair, but it's true.
There must be a whitelist process though: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=bastard&i=stripbooks