skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see homebrew in here as a way to distribute <stuff> internally.

We have non-developers (artists, designers) on our team, and asking them to manage homebrew is a non-starter. We're also on windows.

We current just shove everything (and I mean everything) in perforce. Are there any better ways of distributing this for a small team?
That "signing" has always been bullshit security theater. You'll note that every other graphics API manages just fine without it. I'm glad somebody posted the "signing" algorithm out in the open.
XSLT is also so much more than just a way to render html. especially version 2. the browsers afaik are still XSLT 1 which is kinda limited.

back in the day i built so many nice solutions for both web and internal services using XSLT as a key component. i also found it interesting that it was pretty easy for less experienced devs and particularly non-devs to pick up and make changes to. declarative programming has been much neglected sadly.
Life can be so cruel sometimes but even worst when you have a cheating partner. I got to discover my spouse was having an affair through the help of { remote spy wise @ gm ail c o m } who gave me access to his device remotely without his notice. I got access to all social media apps, call logs and sms and deleted datas and messages too. Do not be a victim to lies and mischief. Get in contact with him and stay safe.
Maybe there's a math behind this. Maybe they enjoy talking about themselves, and don't like talking about you, so are happy to talk as long as its on their terms, but don't really have an interest in a balanced quid-pro-quo.
I think Burroughs is interesting as a person but I agree. I just can't take a list seriously that has Naked Lunch as some masterpiece.

I don't care who the person is. I can judge for myself and Naked Lunch is complete shit.
I agree that mood is key but when it come to being around, not necessarily talking to. Sure, that will also influence talking to but I find that being better at crafting conversation that takes the listener for a ride into a story to be the main factor here.
Perfect list, also:

Google Cloud Run - Lambda

Sure I get the reference to the underlying algebraic representation of coding but come on, Lambda tells us nothing of what it does.

Products (not brands, products) should be named in a way that means something to the customer afaic.
at some point, I noticed that “creepy“ was almost exclusively used to describe males
We wouldn't want to force car makers to hire actual engineers and pay them a living wage to make the cars secure, that would be too much; let's just make crime illegal, that'll solve our problems.
This is the part of HN I really like. People who can look at random C code working with memory and be like "yep this looks like modified X". Pretty amazing (to someone like me who mostly works in high level languages).
In my experience, people disagree about the "vehicle in the park" game because they try to apply other rules that are not part of the game.

Ambulances, for example, are clearly vehicles, and if they're in the park, the rules has been violated.

That doesn't mean the ambulance driver is in the wrong, though. There could be other rules that supersede that rule. We aren't told of any, though, and are simply asked about that one rule.

The only judgements that we're asked to make are "What is considered a vehicle" and "What is considered to be in the park". That's because these things are not defined for us and are open to interpretation.

Interestingly, though, the game said I agreed with 74% of people, which was a lot higher than I expected it to be.
I'm a little surprised to hear "Stop the Boats" come from Britain. As the BBC points out, this policy and messaging was previously created and honed by Australia [1].

What you realize when you look into any of this is that it's not about stopping migration. It's about stopping the wrong kind of migration, specifcally undesirable migrants. The US had their own version of this with then-president Trump referring to Africa and Haiti as "sh*thole countries" [2], both the Trump and Biden administrations hid behind health concerns to stop immigration (ie Title 42 [3]) and now we're being forcefed a manufactured narrative around a "border crisis", which simply isn't true. Fun fact: the majority of undocumented migrants in the US are visa overstayers not border crossers [4].

Many, many years ago I remember hearing a phrase that underpinned UK immigration policy, which is "Britain is for the Britons". It seemed like this has only gotten worse.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-64898507

[2]: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-...

[3]: https://apnews.com/article/immigration-biden-border-title-42...

[4]: https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/686056668/for-seventh-consecu...
They laid off hundreds of staff while they were massively in the black. If your thesis is that Firefox was doomed whatever Mozilla did, and so it's fine to lay off staff and build a warchest to support a post-browser advocacy foundation which pays its leadership 7 figure salaries, that's certainly a position - indeed, it seems to be the position of Mozilla leadership. But to me it is at odds with the thesis of change in which Mozilla keeps the web open by having enough market share to matter in the standards decision making. What is the point of Mozilla without Firefox except to pay the leadership massive salaries?
all of that is just a sign of a failure to understand critical thinking at a mass scale, since “wisdom of repugnance” is fallacious
FOSDEM 2024 and Open Public Transport Routing
Today solar electricity is already cheaper than natural gas and by 2030-31 solar and wind electricity cost will be 1/4 to 1/8 of today's prices looking at the avg 10% cost decline we are seeing. The advantage of natural gas being cheaper than solar was 4-5 years ago now it's no longer the case. Natural gas advantage now is of having being able to produce electricity when needed but as battery storage prices drop it will also be priced out from that market in many places with solar and wind availablity.
I mean, this is an absurd statement.

Microsoft uses this software to make their own video games. They have a very vested interest in making any software they use better.
> It would be interesting to add a database of Make and model.

One pretty comprehensive source for US cars: https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/api/
It's kind of depressing how humanity gravitates towards "trying to be something you aren't".

In 1788, Adolph Franz Friedrich Ludwig Freiherr Knigge wrote "about getting along with people", which is an actually (even today!) useful work broken down into different sections for different kinds of people, revolving around suggestions for topics which are likely to lead to interesting conversations with them.

In the 20th and 21st centuries, the name "Knigge" has been plastered all over various attempts at bog-standard etiquette manuals.

https://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/show/knigge_umgang01...
Basically all open systems are destroyed by spam. Email isn’t really open anymore. It’s got a whole ad hoc high maintenance heavily manual regulatory system around it to make it still somewhat useful.

Even with all that I still get dozens of scams and spam emails a day.
People on skilled worker visa already don't receive these BRP cards in UK. You have to use your passport for everything that demands an ID.
You aren't at the level where you can split an atom in Excel yet? Pfft, you'll get there one day. Keep at it.
In general the way to get out of this successfully is to have a moderation team and a process that (enough) users trust, and the way you do that is to just _not_ try to make everyone happy and accept that some people are going to disagree with the moderation decisions, and it's fine if they just _leave_. It's one of the reasons that I think the best subreddits and smaller independent online communities like hacker news and metafilter remain so stable for so long.

Facebook and twitter and the like are doomed to be in this trap forever because their pursuit of global growth means they _have_ to make everyone happy, and in the process make _no one happy_.

And this is also one of the reasons why, wisely, most western democracies try and stay out of the business of regulating speech entirely.
The book 'feeling good'
Qobuz sells lossless FLAC files. I use their streaming service and will then buy albums if they are something I want to preserve. They also have excellent human curation.
I know, but it's similar and they could have chosen a similar name.
> Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To check it out, click here.

Instantly closed this tab. At least they're upfront about it.
How To Make almost Anything (2020)
I run a Discord and a phpBB forum. The Discord is free. The forum is $130 a year and signups are broken. It's very clear why everyone moved away from them.
We're heading for Venus: ESA approves EnVision
Oh I disagree - we migrated from azure to AWS, and running a container on Fargate is significantly more work than Azure Container Apps [0]. Container Apps was basically "here's a container, now go".

[0] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/products/container-apps
Who Pays and Is Expected to Pay for Romantic Dates
Good point, rather interesting they state "in all our online journeys," rather than in-person.

Anytime I've had to verify identity online for bank account opening, it entailed taking a photo of my ID which then goes through automated ID checks via Jumio or similar APIs.
> Then why'd he accept a plea deal for life? Represented by a public defender.

That doesn't seem very likely. Prosecutors were not seeking the death penalty so life would be the worst outcome he would get if he went to trial and lost.

> That's a striking resource asymmetry: million-dollar national lab work for the prosecution, 30 minutes of paper-skimming for the defense.

Public defenders spend considerably more time and effort than 30 minutes of paper-skimming when the charge is multiple murders.
Microsoft is the competition. ChatGPT has been embraced and extended.
Needs EV support, but still it looks like a very useful self-hosted logger. It should do the job for many households.
Statistically speaking, more of those having this natural level of talent for experimentation & discovery will not be those having a PhD.

>maybe thousands, of others also worked hard, and bet years of their lives, and… failed.

For most of them it was not the lab where they were so hard at work.

Some of them bound to be conducting their financial survival activities working in places like fast-food companies, and worse in positions where they aren't allowed to even fix things like broken milkshake machines.

Far outnumbering the highly significant percentage of PhD's who are not gifted experimentalists but they are the ones hogging their share of equipment and facilities.

So a huge amount of expensive facilities don't do any good, and the vast majority of those ultimately capable of getting something out of it end up getting nothing done. Of the sort.
In people’s defense DNS is complicated. Try building a product that uses it and realize there are a ton of edge cases to handle
It would depend on the extent of damage to the distribution lines.
I'm going to boil this down a bit:

Approach people. Smile. Be interested in them. Don't be a dick.

A lot of the advice is pretty useless, though. Talk slower? Than what? If people talk too slow, they seem stupid. If they talk too fast, they seem stupid. There's a pretty big middle ground there, though, where people just seem normal.

Instead, How about "don't rush"? If you're over-anxious to get your words out, it'll show and you'll make mistakes, making you seem stupid. Simply go at a sustainable pace for both you and your listener, and you'll be fine.
Theft like this is suprisingly common, usually everybody assumes it's people doing their job.
It seems rather manipulative and insincere. When I'm talking to somebody who practices these techniques, I'm not really talking to them.
I'm really pleased with Purelymail so far. It's very minimalistic, reliable (I can't remember if I've ever had any sort of downtime at all!), and dirt cheap: $10/yr if you're on simple pricing, and usually even less if you pay for usage (my usual monthly bill is around 50¢, give or take, so something like $6/yr).

https://purelymail.com/
Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, Vault, External Secrets, Cert Manager, Envoy, Velero, plus countless operators, plus a service mesh if you need it, the list goes on. If you're providing Kubernetes as a platform at any sort of scale you're going to need most of this stuff or some alternatives. This sums up to at least multiple million LOC. Then you have Kubernetes itself, containerd, etcd...
> and then you suddenly have to make very real choices (do you start bragging yourself, do you pretend they didn't brag, do you say something completely vanilla like "Sounds like you really enjoyed your vacation", do you call it out with a joke?).

There's no decision to be made at all, because the option is always to say something vanilla. Why would you even think of any other option?

Sometimes people aren't bragging, they're just excited about something. Could be their first time ever on a real vacation.
It might be an accident. Someone uninitiated may think that is how you are expected to initialize the value. A tool like Copilot may introduce it and go unnoticed.

But let's assume the programmer knows what they are doing and there is no code coming from any other source. When would said programmer write code that isn't deliberate? What is it about Go that you think makes them, an otherwise competent programmer, flail around haphazardly without any careful deliberation?
This insane perspective of “nothing is totally perfect so any improvements over what go currently does are pointless” whenever you confront a gopher with some annoying quirk of the language is one of the worst design flaws in the golang community hivemind.
With the phrasing of the article, I immediately thought it must have been something simple/dumb. I quickly thought MD5 so I looked at the magic numbers in the C code and looked them up on wikipedia. Then I noticed the four F G H I functions. Still I’m not sure it is (maybe it’s something common in hashes?) and I still don’t know what the change is
Always depressed when I saw some new JS library promote

"No jQuery" is one of its main features
They were probably exaggerating but it’s well known that American agencies can and will extort whatever they need from any American company and the organisation wouldn’t even be legally allowed to disclose that it even happened through secrecy and gag orders.
the Masterkey algorithm you mentioned looks interesting to me.
Tank Talk: podcast that explores the terminal storage and energy sector
OK, so basically ad-hoc/greedy. That can get you into, well, issues :-) There are methods where you first adjust away impossible statistics (if you have quals a,b, then P(a)P(b) >= P(a AND b), but if your estimates come from multiple places this might not hold[1] -- so you need to fudge one or more of those before proceeding), and then combine them optimally using Newton-Raphson. It's pretty neat. But it does require a matrix library and stuff :-)

[1] Similarly, you can sometimes guarantee stuff like P(a AND b) <= 1/n due to a unique multi-column index, which can also inform some of your sub-estimates.
Super fun! Some feedback on stability:

Crashed on iPhone XS Max, iOS 17.4 Firefox and safari

We were able to play the Garden round through to the end on an android tablet (Firefox), but when we selected woodland, it froze after the first bird.
If it wasn't obscene, why hide it?

Oh.
regulator KYC guidelines are general and require firms to check the identity of their potential clients without specifying exactly how

it's up to the service/goods provider what documents they accept which vary in terms of risk tolerance
> GP3... as well as 4 volume striping

For MySQL and Postgres, RDS stripes across four volumes once you hit 400 GiB. Doesn't matter the type.

The latency variation on gp3 is abysmal [0], and the average [1] isn't great either. It's probably fine if you have low demands, or if your working set fits into memory and you can risk the performance hit when you get an uncached query.

12K IOPS sounds nice until you add latency into it. If you have 2 msec latency, then (ignoring various other overheads, and kernel or EBS command merging) the maximum a single thread can accomplish in one second is (1000 msec / 1 sec / 2 msec) = 500 I/O. Depending on your needs that may be fine, of course.

> If you don't have a reserved instance, then you're giving up potentially a 50% discount on on-demand pricing.

True, of course. Large customers also don't pay retail.

> An r6i.12xl is a huge instance.

I mean, it goes well past that to .32xl, so I wouldn't say it's huge. I work with DBs with 1 TiB of RAM, and I'm positive there are people here who think those are toys. The original comment I replied to said, "large SaaS," and a .12xl, as I said, would be roughly adequate for ~100K QPS, assuming no absurdly bad queries.

[0]: https://www.percona.com/blog/performance-of-various-ebs-stor...

[1]: https://silashansen.medium.com/looking-into-the-new-ebs-gp3-...
By this definition then people who read the personal ads in the paper everyday in 1995 were addicted to social media.

Ironically to me, "this is just a cope" is exactly what I can't stand social media.

Just large groups of people puppeting the same dumb language and ideas back at each other, ad nauseam.
This is why I love taking notes in my overly elaborate vim notebook setup. It's a delight, so it adds fun to any mundane task at work.

I have very rarely actually looked at old notes.
I have a 40-character master password to backup all my other passwords. I've never felt the need to write it down.
WMR itself was annoying and pointless, but it’s required by HP Reverb G2, which is still technically a very good headset.
FWIW here's Aki Vehtari's approving share on his (and Gelman et al's) blog.
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/02/08/bayesian-a...

The author was also a lead author on a CRC red-series book, Bayesian Modeling and Computation in Python Learning, published a few years ago (short review here):

https://academic.oup.com/jrsssa/article/185/Supplement_2/S76...
In the UK, at least, they don't call it "permanent residency" because it can be revoked quite easily. The "leave to remain" part is implying that one can stay in the country until further notice but does not imply a right to residence. Spend too long abroad over a period of a few years and there's a requirement to "reapply" which may or not be successful.
That is precisely what I'm clearing.
> Why would you even think of any other option?

You don't want to seem cold or fake. Vanilla answers all the time will guarantee you get ignored when good things are happening to everyone else.
They'll just open foreign subsidiaries to hire the devs, and the US company will pay it "license fees". If market forces are net bad for the country, country must improve its game and become more competitive.
Some ideas I have bouncing around:

- “architect” becomes an actual Meaningful term - they are the upstream merge maintainers. Eventually a company is one big monorepo and the CTO should probably be the “Torvalds” for that compmay.

- most lines of business are the users - but could also contribute patches and even patch their own services while they wait.

- most development would benefit a lot from a proposed updates branch - trying to go from zero to fully tested feature in one branch while keeping that JIRA uptodate is tough

- lots more feature flags. One thing I have tried but feels like it ought to work better is to slide whole modules in under feature flags
> My favorite people to talk to just tell the truth and are reliable and responsible people.

This is excellent advice, but unlikely to sell well in the "self-help" aisle.

see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39326423

> ...even Games People Play wasn't really a practical guide for how to handle these situations.

I found it a practical guide, in that when I recognise too many of its entries with a particular interlocutor, and attempting to jump out of the games doesn't work, I talk with other people instead.

(a major advantage to living in a non-anglophone society is that here we expect everyone will be respectful with everyone else, but definitely don't expect everyone will be friends with everyone else)
An insanely good short video on this subject

https://youtu.be/tX8TgVR33KM

Edit: well not, exactly this subject but close enough.
I like this approach, especially for systems that don't immediately require scaling to millions of users.
I use MySQL with the 'SKIP LOCKED' option for my queues. I recognize that this method may not scale indefinitely, but it negates the need to add new infrastructure across all environments, saving on costs and devops effort. I've intentionally designed the event sending and receiving code to be abstract, ensuring that if the need to switch systems arises, it should be a reasonably manageable task.
yes, that was indeed my point
Five Sentences
They do not!

> Q: Can I export data from AWS with Snowmobile?
>
> Snowmobile does not support data export. It is designed to let you quickly, easily, and more securely migrate exabytes of data to AWS. When you need to export data from AWS, you can use AWS Snowball Edge to quickly export up to 100TB per appliance and run multiple export jobs in parallel as necessary. Visit the Snowball Edge FAQs to learn more.

https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/faqs/?nc2=h_mo-lang

Why would they make it convenient to leave?
It's a small tower, but I'd think it'd probably still weighs a couple thousand pounds. I could be way off there and it's smaller than it looks in the CNN photo, but you're likely looking at using a construction helicopter and needing experienced people capable of rigging the tower and actually lifting it without killing everybody.

My guess is that they just dropped it and chopped it up. A helicopter seems ridiculously over-the-top and cartoonish for a couple hundred bucks in scrap metal value you'd gain from the theft. You'd waste more than that in just fuel for the helicopter.
Not more than AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Kind of like that but without servers in the middle.
Is the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?
Imagine you're using a EC2 to run several DBMS instances at the same time, each for a different customer. How do you make sure that each instance only uses a certain amount of memory and doesn't affect the others?
Interesting, in selfhosted discussions, I usually hear about that as a negative (it comes up frequently in the seafile - nextcloud comparison). It makes sense, but I hadn’t heard the pro-part of the argument before.
Amazon overcharges shoppers with Buy Box algorithm, fresh lawsuit claims
Forced full-screen sucks on a 49" ultra-wide monitor, lol.
I’ve been using Road Trip MPG on iOS for everything car related. It saves a CSV to Dropbox or iCloud and lets me use it between multiple devices. Really happy with it!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/road-trip-mpg/id298398207
On Windows, there is "Move" menu item in shift+right click context menu on taskbar icons. Selecting this item, then pressing left/right/up/down key brings window immediately into closer edge of valid desktop area, with mouse pointer sent to that window titlebar. This item existed since at least OS/2, and although it was not found in early version of Windows 11 new taskbar, it has since been re-implemented.

I know because I needed it while it had been missing :p
Toyota was pretty much giving them away. Huge subsidies on prices, amazing load offers and I think you could get a card for 15k of free H2.

It was a good offer in theory, but the H2 infrastructure never caught up.
Yes, you can program in a subset of your language that is not Turing complete.