skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The benefit of the + is that I don’t have to set up anything in advance. I can type an email address on any device, including devices I don’t own, and still have it work as an alias.

I do have a “real” email alias as well that I use for true spam (e.g. to get “customer club” discounts while everything they send me is autoredirected to spam by a mail filter). I reserve the + addresses for things I want in my inbox, but still want to be able to filter easily in my mail client.
One-way flight to Russia? His Twitter feed for the last decade does give merit to the idea that he's been on the payroll.
The ManhattAnt: Colony Structure of a New Pest in New York City
> I've never seen an outage this big.

I remember a time when systems would boast about their "five nines" uptime. It was before anything "cloud" appeared.
> Book is not yet published but in early access since a couple of years

According to the top post's link, it was released in July 2024.
What is the hottest temperature humans can survive?
What is your cookie preference?
I'm doing my Masters dissertation in the UK to understand user's attitude towards Cookie consent, preference and how to improve safer data collection.

I'd appreciate if you can take part in this A/B test which takes less than 2 minutes.

Thanks in advance
Check out the "static geometric" pattern too while you're at it, there's a zooming out optical illusion occurring there
I think there is some merit behind the idea of Product-Market Fit but my main critique of it is that it neglects the importance of social connections in achieving business success.

It makes it sound like entrepreneurship is some kind of science whereby the entrepreneur interfaces directly with 'the markets' in search of optimum efficiency... It masks the reality that, in fact, entrepreneurship is a far more primal pursuit. Success in it has little to do with efficiency.

Entrepreneurs will often claim that success in business is achieved via clear logical thinking that is free of emotions. But in reality, entrepreneurship is all about emotions and relationships. Entrepreneurs are often highly emotional and think emotionally, not rationally - Yet they think of themselves as rational; they call their social games 'strategy' instead of acknowledging that, underneath the surface, the game is far more primal.
Toyota bets big on hybrid-only models as EV demand slows
Yes - another bit that I worked on (albeit tangentially).

The QR code stuff was an interesting one. There was a worry that people would generate fraudulent codes - hence the weird (in my opinion) signing requirements.

Similarly, with a URl there was a risk that people would open the page and think that was all they needed to do. Hence a code designed to be read by a specific app.

I think (and you'll have to forgive my slightly hazy memory of a difficult time) that it was based on the same code New Zealand were using for their check-in service.
It’s actually out now, I have a copy! Ordered directly fro No Starch Press.
Being different does not imply being better or worst. Again, any specify example on how the generated code could be better? (e.g. nullability information, etc...)
That's property law for you, earning money from other people's work just because you have a piece of paper claiming ownership over the land they work on is all about rent seeking.
I think people who want apps on a fitness watch, ultimately want different things. Personally, apps on a tiny screen is not a good experience to me. So I never use them.

All the smart features i want on a watch is, Notifications, to know when someone is calling me, payments, and to find my phone.

Everything else is something I do on my phone.
> Also some junk senders seem to have worked out that the sub-domain I use for the per-entity addresses is a catch-all, I need to address that at some point.

Could you elaborate how you'd address that?
Definitely signed - “use negative duration to subtract”

But bit pattern is an issue internal to the library. If you can find a bug in the code, certainly point it out and offer a fix if it’s in your skillset.
As crazy as it is… kinda smart lol
Which chords are supported? It seems that usual stuff like c9 or b♭ (using Unicode flat symbol) don't work.
I don't think OP is suggesting that the payload list is the interesting thing here, rather the overall approach
This is the old "homepod with a screen" rumour rehashed. According to those rumours Apple has been looking at putting a screen on the HomePod, and has commented publicly in the past about competitor offerings being enhanced if they had included a screen. Those competitor offerings now exist and we can see how they work.

The issue here is that Apple largely make products which reapply their existing subscription services into a new format thus growing their revenue. Google's Nest Home Hub follows this formula too, it delivers Google's services onto a screen in a place which makes consuming these services convenient. Whereby using those services Google earns revenue and the user is further entrenched into Google's ecosystem. Secondly a user may also be encouraged to upgrade to a YouTube subscription for a better experience.

So while there is nothing stopping Apple from producing similar hardware, what Apple lack here are subscription services that aren't already being served by the HomePod.

One might answer that the obvious use for this device is FaceTime and AI. However Apple currently monetises neither of these and for the types of general AI requests that such a device would handle, Apple currently engage OpenAI.

I'll give this rumour credibility if Tim Cook starts dropping hints about it; like he did repeatedly for the Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro, and Apple Intelligence. Until then it's just another Bloomberg Apple article with no substance - of which they have many, most famously with "the big hack".
Disney says man can't sue over wife's death because he agreed to Disney+ TOS
There's a TMNT reference lurking here somewhere :)
What other options does he have? I really wish people wouldn't cheer when smallfolk like us get crushed by the state. Not saying he's perfect, but what him and others have to suffer seems vastly out of proportion to what they did
You don’t just want to sort the data, you actually want to collect a list of overlapping pairs, (or more like you want to collect the list of pairs that have changed since last time).

Using a built in sort will give you the same complexity, but iterating over 10000 elements again to gather this list is an overhead that you can avoid with a DIY approach
>At a 2 seconds clearance between vehicles, the Tesla system at peak capacity of 4 passengers will move 2 people per second. So it's equivalent with a subway train at crush capacity running every 1000 seconds or 16 minutes. That kind of frequency is typical for some longer haul train links, airport trains with underground sections like the RER etc.

Typical where? Any well functioning subway system I’ve been on has a much higher frequency than that. Every 3-5 minutes.
How is it different exactly? If I had 51% of the hashing power on the bitcoin network, couldn't I change block history and have a majority of the network agree on that new chain?
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CDs are extremely crinkly at a microscopic level. They're effectively thin sheets of foil that use embossed pits to encode data.
Great feedback! Thank you! On it :)
Such good feedback, on it! Thank you!!
>It is meaningless to model a great algorithm in abstract mathematical models, and then let someone else implementing them in C89 with raw BSD sockets and C strings

Bold statement, at least in that case you know the algorithm isn't wrong.
How is the cost any different than “binging” a series kept on as background noise?

If this new feature would cost the streaming companies more money, they just need to tweak the business model or subscription pricing to cover it.
1) I’m going to go out on a limb and guess Lastpass, Okta, et al., WERE and ARE SOC2 type II certified. Didn’t stop them from getting breached.

2) SOC2 is defined by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. That it is held up as some sort of exemplary cyber security standard is absolutely ridiculous.
Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand
I half agree with you. We just went through an ECS to EKS migration, and we're still incredibly dependent on AWS. The hard part isn't the container orchestration system or even containerizing your workload - it's all the other crap you need to develop and maintain around it. Your databases, networking stack, MQ brokers, secrets managers, and everything else are still stuck to whatever cloud provider you're using.

EKS really isn't much harder to build out than ECS - but it doesn't set you up to be much more cloud agnostic.
I get why it might not matter depending on the work you do, but if non-trivial work is required just to keep your code building due to fast non-backward compatible changes in libraries you use, that might introduce hesitation.
Just like trump eh?

Is everyone you don't like a Russian spy?
I do not categorize him as “small folk like us”
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Storage and processing location is a big, big trust issue on the world
stage. There are all sorts of wobbly notions of alignment. And no
doubt lots of leverage going on behind.

If you made a democratic poll and asked people, "would you like
national data stored in your own country or elsewhere?" there would be
no ambiguity in the answer. And that would not be an "uninformed"
poll, since matters of public trust should direct policy and not
technics and economics.

Of course there are good reasons for outsourcing, like geographical
diversity, but those raise a new and I think separate questions like
"Who would you trust with our backups?". That nuance of examination
seems to be missing in the UK at present.
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Ngolngol the Cyclone Spirit. The figure has long fanned-out earlobes, rain curtaining from raised arms, ancient. Ancient too is his neighbour, Djua, the Devil-Devil Bird with the big penis. His wife killed a little child and cooked it for him. At night, when the women heard his panting coming towards the camp, they would quickly put their infants to the breast so that Djua could not hear the babies’ crying. Here, he is depicted as a hopping scrotum.

Cool. It can't all be myths, though, I seem to remember one piece of more recent rock art depicts sailing ships.
A 10 kW-class flat-type loop heat pipe for waste heat recovery
Compared to what? It's easily the best Internet cable TV product on the market IMHO.
Yeah, kind of disappointing. I was hoping I could play around with this a bit in the browser.
The Key Belt
The big scandal was actually PPE https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/17/how-the-mich...
The GTbank hack: How it actually happened
Speed of Algorithms (With Cats)
Agree.

"Two weeks later on 20 January, Dotcom, Finn Batato, Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk were arrested in Coatesville, New Zealand by the New Zealand Police, in an armed raid on Dotcom's house involving 76 officers and two helicopters. Seized assets included eighteen luxury cars, large TVs, works of art and US$175 million in cash. Dotcom's bank accounts were frozen, denying him access to 64 bank accounts world-wide[...]"

No one legit has 175MM in cash sitting around. That's the realm of dictators and drug lords.
Downloaded the torrent, and it's a 164GB text file.

What's a quick way to search if my SSN is in the file? I ask before diving in, it's currently extracting and ETA is 40 minutes.
There’s a substantial ongoing debate about how much responsibility a platform as for what users do on that platform. Nearly everyone in tech is affected by that.

The theatrics and drama of it is a silly distraction, but the fundamental questions seem worth following and discussing.

I’m not German; what an odd thing to comment.
The fine article is from 2013 (thanks sjsdaiuasgdia). So it contains outdated information about the Saturn V legacy:

> There has never been anything like the Saturn V, the
> launch vehicle that powered the United States past the Soviet
> Union to a series of manned lunar landings in the late
> 1960s and early 1970s. The rocket redefined "massive,"
> standing 363 feet (110 meters) in height and producing a
> ludicrous 7.68 million pounds (34 meganewtons) of thrust
> from the five monstrous, kerosene-gulping Rocketdyne
> F-1 rocket engines that made up its first stage.

Just this June the fourth Starship prototype flew, both taller (122 meters) and more powerful (74 meganewtons of thrust, twice that of the Saturn V).
While I don't disagree with the idea behind the post, Kim is not exactly small fry. He is not as big as he once was, but he seems to be doing well money-wise.
Link to the announcement[1], looks pretty bad.

[1]: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-...
Services that explicitly needed the API were also down, and it wasn't pretty. For example: Minecraft Mod packs that rely on SerializationIsBad all went kerplunk! I'm sure a lot of people were scratching their heads yesterday wondering why they couldn't do anything for a time.

What made me laugh though was when the "X is functioning normally" immediately followed by "X is degraded, continuing to monitor" messages that kept popping up then right back to "normal" again, all in the same 30 second timespan... made me giggle
What comes after will be better. Maybe not as integrated, but better as far as options go.
I agree with you, but this will never happen. You think anyone would like to be responsible for bankrupting GM? It's bad PR. All people will talk about is how many jobs will be lost.

Here in Brazil we have a somewhat similar problem where the auto industry has been completely subsidized for over 70 years. Our factories are extremely inefficient and customers pay exorbitant amounts of money for a car. But if they remove the subsidies and import restrictions all of these industries would inevitably go bankrupt. Even though this is a good thing (these industries would not exist without these unfair advantages) nobody will ever want to be the bad guy that caused all those job losses.

It's simply not solvable in my view.
This Kim dude. Neverending story.

Amiga (never heard of him during my scene time), then his alleged mobile ISDN service, MEGA.

He seemed like the shady poster child for every trend who got stopped before jumping once more publicly on Crypto.
It's still a human. He just shared songs on the the internet. He's treated like a war criminal.
Check the date on the article - 4/14/2013
Let's not read past the words written on the screen now. No reason to bring Trump into the conversation at all.
They probably would need major refurbishment anyway, right?

Anything that is of value is stripped anyway, and.. the cutting shield is lost (but... who knows, maybe not, as that needs a lot of serviceability anyway, maybe the valuable stuff is removed even from that?)
You have to understand that buying computers comes out of the capital budget, and is several times more expensive than just leasing them for this year; and that hiring staff runs into severe civil service pay issues. Once "buy some computers and hire staff to manage them" has been ruled out by politics, buying hosting on the open market becomes the remaining reasonable choice, and nobody got fired for choosing AWS.
There is always nuance.

I think if you work on a team for some product, it would be good to be a user of that product. Especially if you are at a high level driving product decisions.

I think if you don't work on a specific product it is good to have diversity. For example GMail developers should probably use a mix of OSes and web browsers. But most Android GMail app developers should probably be using Android GMail.

But of course you don't want to be blind to other players, copying good ideas is good. So you do want to regularly interact with the other options as well. But I don't think only using the third-party option is a good idea either. If you only use an Apple Watch you don't know how the Pixel Watch works and how it has different interaction patterns (which on its own is probably a good thing). Maybe the product leads of the Pixel watch should regularly alternate between their own product and other competitors.
When a owner of a file-hosting platform face the possibility of being extradited from their resident country to the US because they (allegedly) ignored DMCA takedown requests, it does seem like it could be of interest to many of us here.

Signed, not a German.
Thank you!

@dang, can we add the year to the headline? Thank you.
We see this argument anytime a cloud migration comes up and it’s a severe simplification.

Having your own datacenter requires someone to manage that hardware. There are costs for the space you are in.

But you also have to have the hardware for your peak utilization. If you are either very bursty or have significant times of little to no activity you should be able to scale up and down.

Yes a simple 1:1 is likely going to cost more (depending on your scale, if your Cloud bill is under $200 not sure you could really do much better) but then your not utilizing the cloud to its advantage.

That is before going into the savings with things like spot inferences for processes and don’t have to be real time.

Yes this doesn’t take into account what else they might be running to share resources with. But not every organization is going to be running a bunch of different workloads that can fully utilize their hardware at different times
breaking it up will also weaken US Dominance in Tech, the fact that Android and Chrome are under them same umbrella helps them share IP across the company and decreases RD costs because some of the costs are shared.
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. The degree to which the propaganda works is alarming. They'll turn a blind eye to Ross Ulbricht, Snowden, the Patriot Act, etc. while wasting their time foaming at the mouth at made up stories about Russia. Unreal to see in this day and age, honestly - I mean you'd think the internet + a little critical thinking would have given these people a clue.
I've come to realize that pretty much every general rule we have is only ever really true within a bounded context defined by a certain set of assumptions, and models that we think are universally applicable seem so simply because we can't (yet) look beyond their context of applicability.

Even scientific models that we regard as describing fundamental laws of nature will stop describing reality accurately once you hit extreme conditions -- Newtonian physics breaks once you're dealing with relativistic contexts, for example.

The human mind has tendency to generalize its heuristics, and hold certain rules to be either absolutely true or absolutely untrue, which unfortunately hobbles our ability to use our rationality to its fullest potential. People will often dismiss an entire model as being universally "false" as soon as they see a single data point that it doesn't work for, and then try to formulate a new model that's still trying to encompass everything, everywhere. Maybe we'd do better to interpret falsifying data points as helping to map the outer boundaries of the model's applicability, and formulate multiple models, each optimized for different contexts, and each regarded as valid within its bounds.
TFA was written in 2013... much before the BFR/MCT presentation was done let alone realised a scant 11 years later.

I do think it was an interesting option to replace the SRBs on SLS but alas we'll never know.
I still remain positive honestly.

25 years ago I could never have imagined the internet we have today.

25 years from now we could easily have a free internet protocol that is taking hold and the whole process repeats.

So much has came and went in a single generation but it works both ways. It is not an eternally negative, march towards complete totalitarianism even if it it feels like that right now.
The NSA has a copy of your ciphertexts on their disks today. What could stop them from trying to decrypt it in 5 years' time? It's not like they will be held back by any Terms & Conditions.

The only way you can do any "not after X time" decryption even for honest-ish users is if the decryption involves getting extra key material from some server that erases it or shuts down at some point. But even that doesn't help if someone can break the crypto.
Anyone know why this is prioritised? Wasn't this copyright stuff from like 2 decades ago? Just genuinely curious.
> "would you like national data stored in your own country or elsewhere?"

And if you ask the question "how much more would you pay to host UK data in the UK with UK owned providers only", you get the answer £0. So it doesn't happen.
I think we have the same opinion there.

Rusts verbosity (and thus, harder to read syntax) is there on purpose and it's nice you do not have to worry about a lot of things because the compiler does for you.

You are right with the updating part. I think what annoys me the most is that you often have to update (because you need feature x, just now released) and you will also get a new api. It feels (highly subjective here) as it is not yet so stable as in other languages.

I also scrolled over some commits from the UUID repo. You are right, the maintainers seem to be doing a good job publishing a good crate with great documentation and the required maintenance work.
It seems like the properties attributed in this opinion piece to oral history are actually properties of copying. If there are a lot of copies then a disaster is unlikely to destroy them all.

But, printing, especially Movable Type, makes it practical to produce copies of written history. And then digital computers make it not just practical but essentially free.

My understanding is that historians wouldn't call this "Oral history" but instead "Oral tradition". Because we now have technology to make and copy records, to them "Oral history" is the records of what people recall about something, typically first hand recollections. When you do this, mutation stops, which is valuable to historians.

Example #1: Ronald Reagan gets elected US President. Written history, that this happened is directly recorded when it happened. Written History. Many copies. No mutations.

Example #2: Someone from Reagan's campaign recounts to a historian the events of the election night as they realised he was going to win and this is recorded on tape. Oral History. Many copies. Mutations fixed at moment of recording shortly after election.

Example #3: I recall hearing that Reagan was elected President and mention this to a historian in 2023 during a recorded conversation. It is PCM data and it's also auto-transcribed with transcription checked and corrected by the historian. Oral History. Fewer but still N copies. Mutations fixed only decades after event that was recalled.

Example #4: Our intern re-tells the story she heard from me about Reagan being elected, on a podcast. She wasn't born until this century, so she wasn't a witness to the event, but she did hear me tell the story. Now arguably Oral tradition. Many Copies. Considerable mutation.

Example #5: The podcast for some crazy reason goes viral. Mutated versions of the Reagan story, now sometimes naming Clint Eastwood for some reason, circulate. A popular "re-staging" of the text has an unnamed British woman hearing that Clint Eastwood has been elected on the radio, after Rick Astley's famous "Never Gonna Give You Up" is played, which means now it's the wrong man, the wrong year and little of the story has survived. This is definitely Oral Tradition. Huge numbers of copies. Mutations never cease.
1. Forbid Google from paying Apple and Android OEM’s to be the default search engine. Also, detach Google search from Android and forbid Google from forcing it to be included on every Android phone.

2. Give Google search competitors access to Google’s search data so these new AI search engine companies can compete. Without these huge amounts of data, they have no chance.

Done!