skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we don't know what he has been asked. the french authorities are testing the waters and see how much they can control the guy.
given the uproar, it seems its not the time and so they claim they are only concerned about csam.
Most, if not virtually all, crypto users use exchanges, and unless they're conducting pure crypto transactions, or trading directly in cash, they use a bank at some point.
Let People Build Freely
> You don’t?

No, why do yours? :D

If you're using cluster autoscaling with very small (or perfectly sized) nodes, I could see it being more of an issue on a busy cluster.

But even then, I wouldn't set up a database to auto-scale. A new node could get created, but it doesn't mean the db pods will be moved to it. They'd ideally stay in the same location. And on a really busy cluster, I'd prefer a separate node pool for stateful apps.

Using something like Stackgres makes it relatively painless to run postgres in k8s too, it handles setting up replicas and can do automatic failover.
From shrimp to steel: Introducing nature-inspired metalworking
> Is French law somehow special or superior compared to other countries legal systems?

Yes, France has a stronger rule of law than China, Russia or North Korea [1].

That doesn't mean their laws are inherently better. But their legal system is objectively superior when it comes to something like weighing a warrant.

[1] https://elsevier-ssrn-document-store-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/1...
8 billion people on the planet. Some of them not anywhere near first world conditions. This _is_ going to take some time.
Involved with CSAM means having a platform that openly has CSAM and not doing anything about it despite many warnings and requests in years. Do you disagree that is illegal? See my examples of others being charged...
There is no "law" in Iran or North Korea or Russia or China. So, yes?
Germany's ban on some type of political speech have high bars. It is not easy to shut down right wing publications.

And just to be clear, the bans we have in Germany prohibit spreading lies about some of the worst atrocities ever committed by man. Freedom of speech is a valuable right, but not as valuable as the dignity and life of humans, 50m of which lost their life from 1933-1945.
can that iron and fold clothes?
Mining, airdrops, or minting your own
We're the only ones we've found so far.

personally I'd say don't bother, but I'm a nihilist.
Well... yeah, but the difference between the significant ("some" is doing overtime there) work and 5 seconds on your phone is very significant. You can't just dismiss the effects of making it easy because it was always possible. Easy and possible are very different.
Never say never. They will gladly drop him off on the border with Poland and tell the US to pick him up once they have no use for him. The only reason they won't do it is to assure spies working for them that they will always be "taken care of" by Russia.
I also think that such UI will be unnecessary, unless it displays something that you might want to see even if you are not touching it. Most commands can be entered by keyboard, including many commands for window management; some can use the keyboard and mouse together (e.g. to manually change the position and/or size of a window).

However, sometimes it may be helpful to display status indicators, e.g. if you have both tiled and floating windows, it can help to display an indicator for this. Also, an operating system design might involve capabilities, and the status of these capabilities (e.g. audio, network, automation, etc) might also be displayed as window indicators that the user can adjust (mute, redirect, etc).
The way I heard it phrased: "people join a company, people quit a boss".
In other words in the US economic system it pays better to sell ads than to try to produce an actual tangible product.

That says more about the economic system than it does about Intel.
> love when everything inconvenient to the United States government and it's affiliates is "disinformation"

This tweet is literally plain propaganda move, as it has little to do with human rights... and Snowden has been a treasure trove of Russian sponsored propaganda lately.

To the point of me thinking that his Twitter is just some FSB agent writing posts for him.
proving his point
"Sakharov also predicted telescopes set up in space, though he seemed to think they’d be installed in “space laboratories."

Everybody seems to have failed to anticipate how much we would automate, and how fast that tech would progress. People on Mars and select asteroids? No, robots.
It's amazing how many on HN are actually closet authoritarians. It was made extra clear during the pandemic and becomes clearer with every one of these posts
As has been widely publicized, this project was a total[0] failure[1]. Can anyone from the "developing world" <eyeroll emoji> comment on what has succeeded in its place? Mobile phones? Chromebooks?

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop...

[1] https://philanthropydaily.com/the-spectacular-failure-of-one...

Here in Massachusetts, USA we're on the One Chromebook Per Child plan. Seems to mostly work OK.
This is probably referencing the same idea that seeded https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/12905/speedup-f.... I remember the claim, as well. That stack exchange indicates that it was never actually quantified. My gut would be that some of the algorithm advances require far more space that was available on early machines. Still a neat idea to look into.
A mouthpiece for the kremlin talking about basic human rights is hilarious
The twitter link you posted contain the charge docs. Do they not?
Ask HN: Name for a Monorepo Tool for Golang
Hi there.
A few days ago, I posted a dev tool for Go to easily manage monorepos, called monogo (1). I hate the name, so I'm curious: do people have any good ideas for it?

https://github.com/nicolasgere/monogo
The Roman Empire took 250 years to collapse, yet in hindsight we still consider it to have just stopped at one point. Likewise, we look at mass extinction events in the geologic histories as if they were one off blips, but e.g. this Hangenberg Event I just googled spanned 100K to several hundred thousand years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangenberg_event

But we're living a mass extinction event if you consider biodiversity and populations in non-human species has plummeted; bug populations have halved in a decade, with that bird populations have taken a hit, ten billion crabs starved because of a heat wave (https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/research-confir...), etc.

No, 8 billion people won't drop dead, and life will continue in many ways, but in our lifetimes we'll see worsening food scarcity because of climate change (already happening), consequent famines, mass migrations, wars, etc.

But for a lot of people it mainly means food gets more expensive and the relative wealth of food choice we've had will be reduced, and houses will be built differently depending on the new climate trends.

That or the gulf stream will stop and the northern hemisphere gets covered in a mile of ice again. But that too won't happen overnight.
Thank you so much for creating this! I have been wanting something like this forever.

Please consider the potential for this - I think you could make something really fun and something people would be willing to pay for.

But the problem is you need a world someone else created (or one you painstakingly create yourself). You could consider Conan's Hyborian Age, H.P. Lovecraft, Sherlock Holmes, or Peter Watt's work[0] for a known world that is public domain to base your project on.

Best of luck!

[0]: https://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
Some people think countries should keep a certain amount of certain industries around, regardless of whether they can be run profitably, just in case a big war breaks out and you need those things and can't source them from abroad.

A government might keep things like shipyards in business, even if they can't compete in the global market, just in case we ever need a rush order of new warships. And keep steel mills in business to supply the shipyards, and so on.

Because modern weapon systems need modern integrated circuits, if there was the political desire the state could keep Intel on life support forever.
As an Apple fan, what Apple charges for RAM is insulting. Pre 2012 it was standard practice to buy your MacBook Pro with the minimum RAM, and you could upgrade the RAM yourself buying from Crucial and the like for WAY CHEAPER than what Apple sold the RAM for. To stop that Apple started soldering the RAM to the logic board. I’d have no problem buying RAM from Apple if they charged a fair market price. Sadly Apple seem hell bent on ripping us off.
> the "taxation is theft" group

Let's be real here. With compounding, total taxation takes away 90% of income. If that's not theft, I don't know what is. There would be an appropriate level of taxation that would be fair, perhaps 10%.
Maybe? I have poked around a ton of elisp code in my time with emacs. It isn't hard, necessarily. No harder than any other code.
I'll look into it, thank you so much! Way back then there wasn't a lot of choice though. I think I've played with Minikube but that was not recommended for production, and all the other distributions were huge (or at least I thought so!).
I don't mean to wear out this thread, and I totally respect your different viewpoint, but when I see:

... they're trying to tell us something. When we need greater
computer power, the answer is not "get a bigger computer", it's
"get another computer".

that does read as dogmatic advice to me, taken in isolation. It boils down to "the answer is X."
Not "consider these factors" or "weigh these different options," but just "this is the answer, full stop."

That's dogma, no?

(that aside, I do slightly regret the snarkiness of my initial comment :)
The US government blocks all kinds of company sales. Sometimes for anti monopoly reasons, sometimes for national security reasons.

10 years ago I worked for a company with less than 2,000 people. We made a chip that was used by a few gigantic companies over 150K employees. There were only 3 companies that made this kind of product. My company tried to sell a business unit with about 200 people to our competitor and get out of this market. Our two gigantic customers went to the US FTC Federal Trade Commission and got them to block the deal over anti competitive concerns. With only 2 competitors these gigantic companies expected that they would have to pay more per chip. They used their influence to get the government to block the deal.
That's funny because the French government is accusing him of:

- Fourniture de prestations de cryptologie
visant à assurer des fonctions de
confidentialité sans déclaration conforme,

Providing cryptography services with
an eye to ensure confidentiality
features without a compliance
declaration. (Translation mine.)

- Fourniture d'un moyen de cryptologie
n'assurant pas exclusivement des
fonctions d'authentification ou de
contrôle d'intégrité sans déclaration
préalable,

Providing a cryptographic method
non-exclusively ensuring authentication
and integrity features w/o prior
declaration. (Translation mine.)

- Importation d'un moyen de cryptologie
n'assurant pas exclusivement des
fonctions d'authentification ou de
contrôle d'intégrité sans déclaration
préalable.

Same, but regarding import controls.

The first item implies that you're not allowed to provide others with software/services that provides confidentiality protection without registration -- without a statement that you comply with legal requirements!

Presumably the compliance declaration is subject to prosecution for perjury or similar charges if they can twist the legal requirements after your registration.

The second item implies that you're not allowed to provide others even with something as innocuous as authentication and integrity protection software/services without first registering your intent to do so!!

In the context of the cryptowars of the 90s, and in the context of web browsers, all of this is just pure nonsense.

Where are the prosecutions of Mozilla, Google, and Apple (and Brave, and Opera, and...) for distributing browsers which all provide confidentiality services? Or did they all get approval from the French government?
it also feels like it has no meaning unless they magically roll back rent prices by 50% or more... which isn't going to happen
We spend more money on the NIH alone than on drug trials. This is completely false.

The trick here is that you exclude fundamental research by definition when you talk about "drug development". But the fundamental research is necessary for drug development, and it's just as if not more expensive.
Thanks for your reply.

I think I share your perception of ugliness in TS.

It feels like in TS, most if not all of the worries around complex types originate in compromises like this, or in other words, structural/duck typing.

Also feels a bit like functions are an elephant in the room. Function types with structural typing for parameters, arguments and return values are useful.

But then you have to use overloads and "extends" in generics for the first time in order to *describe* something, and if you're like me, you might cry a little from the inside. Especially when you simultaneously chastise yourself for wasting time on ignorable TS issues.
> binary-trees benchmark is using Go 1.23.0 which is the latest version. Go submissions do not do anything differently compared to other GC-based languages for the most part. The fastest Java submission has interestingly much lower execution time than other Java submissions, and I plan to look into it, but that would be pretty much the only caveat. I think it is relevant given the topic of the discussion is GC implementations and their characteristics.

I think what you are still missing is the context that I've added in my last two replies. This is not the use case that I'm using Go for. My micro benchmark was only to refute your claim that it's hard for Go to do tens of millions of allocations per second in a multithreaded environment.

We are not CPU bound, we are IO bound, and we need low latency (in p95 and p99 too), low memory usage, and good throughput for our network services. We get all of that from Go. Would we get more throughput from Java or .NET Core? Probably, but what would we need to trade off? Memory usage or latency? Or both? Go is optimized for latency (not throughput) and always was. That works for us.

> Regarding highly-loaded networked services with predictable or hand-tuned data lifetimes, in C# you are expected to completely bypass the allocations with the use of built-in ArrayPool<T>, stack-allocated buffers or NativeMemory.Alloc/Free which directly call into malloc/free. This is made possible by wrapping such buffers into Span<T> or Memory<T>. Things like Kestrel (web server) or Garnet (Redis server) do just that.

The last time I used Java was probably 10 years ago. I was interested in C# when they introduced .NET Core with the possibility to compile it to a single binary and support for Linux. I actually got excited about Span<T> when they announced it. I'm not sure what the current status of Kestrel is, but back then (a few years ago) its latency, memory usage, and throughput were not so good. Garnet looks very good on paper. I added it to my bookmarks when they announced it. For now, we are happy with Redis, but maybe we'll consider Garnet one day.

I just googled some more recent real-life workload benchmarks and I see Go still does a lot better there than C#.
It's probably not a super scientific benchmark. And benchmarks are just benchmarks especially micro benchmarks:

https://www.wwt.com/blog/performance-benchmarking-bun-vs-c-v...

Scroll down to http-server:

https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/go-vs-csh...

etc.

> I know Go has Arena API but am not sure regarding its current status.

I wouldn't use it in production unless you know how it's implemented and you are careful. The current implementation probably will not get into the language as it's on hold.

EDIT: It seems my love story with .NET Core, which began in 2016, didn't work out back then after all!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12358370
The result of this is that users, especially any the government might be interested in, would use the services that don't keep any information. Which in general is good -- services shouldn't be keeping data for no reason -- but sometimes there's a reason. Maybe an ordinary user would like to have a cloud backup, but not if it could create legal liability (and then their lawyers order them not to do it).

So we should be asking if this makes sense. If the government can snatch the data from third party services without a warrant then the people interesting to them will use the ones that don't store it, and then the government can't get the data with only a subpoena anyway. They may not even be able to get it with a warrant. But it also means that people can't have any features that require a trusted third party if they're concerned about legal liability from e.g. prosecutors taking things out of context, which should be everybody because they do that all the time.
Also want to recommend https://github.com/peterkrull/quad for quadrotor firmware and low-level implementation!
The food with bugs one was hilarious, as if you can’t find or buy all kinds of bugs and simply drop them onto the food and take a picture. Pretty sure that’s one of the oldest free meal scams anyway.
I think the multimedia empire franchise explanation is more likely to explain which of those survive than pure popularity. Minecraft seems like it could be replaced by something else in the same genre, but MS is still actively developing it so maybe it will just evolve. But it seems likely to me new generations will want something for that niche. Something like Harry Potter seems more like the sort of thing that will last while the people who enjoy it live, but at the same time things like James Bond or Star Trek are outlasting their original fans so who knows.
As do I, using Coin Ledger in years I've traded. Almost all transfers from crypto to fiat happen via exchanges and banks, and I can't imagine it would be difficult at all for the government to get their hands on a list of such ACH transactions.
Honestly, I think you should quit. If you're not excited about it, then you're not going to like working on it anyway — even assuming that it takes off. And you could be spending the time and money on something that you're more excited about instead.

Some reasons I could be wrong: if you're actually excited about it, but the potential embarrassment is clouding your judgment. Honestly, nobody cares if you have a failed project. Or even a failed startup. I've watched people blow seed rounds on things they were passionate about but couldn't get traction with, and they don't have any regrets. And more importantly — nobody else really cares. Try to think about why you started building it in the first place. Do you still care about the problem you're solving?

One more thing — I've been pitched this same idea multiple times over the past 10 years (some seed-funded, some bootstrapped). Not saying that it's a bad idea, but it's not clear what's unique about your iteration that would give it better odds of success than previous attempts. In my opinion, it suffers from the "not 10x better" problem. If I want an awesome burrito, it's not that hard to find an awesome burrito place without going through item-level reviews. And if I want the best item on a menu, I can usually ask the waiter or go through some of the reviews (Google sometimes highlights certain menu items).
Hot as fuck; I personally prefer to stay the fuck out.
Worthy dream, despite the critical noise. Pioneers should try adventurous things even if those too fail.

I owned one (g1g1), and visited a rural village participating in the program. Everyone was pretty excited and things were really happening.

The tech was cool. I dreamt of making the software a bit better (I didn't.)

Alas, even dreams die.

RIP OLPC
It might've been a big mistake on his side, not understanding what kind of country Russia was. I think a lot of Americans don't understand how different it is in autocratic countries. They complain about the lack of free speech in the US, without understanding what this actually means.
> sitting in miserable weather

Only in some parts of country... further west you're frequently hiking miles and miles (in miserable weather) instead.
it's some best advice right here, failing is the part of journey of life. It is this experience that makes you who you are today or in future. Think of it in terms of baby steps into development, you fall and get back up again.
The issue is mostly when the steps are not conventional, too high, tilted, slippery, behind thick fog. Suddenly you have a new problem, learning to climb in new ways.
> Any modifications for the app binaries and protocols would be quickly noticed. Hackers and cybersecurity companies are not fools.

Would it though? The Signal server source repo was once not updated for almost a year until somebody noticed and called them out on it:

https://lemmy.ml/post/55595
Actually he did, once the NSA prevented him from fleeing to where he was hoping to have political asylum and trapped him in Russia.
Telegram was using Singer House office long after VK had been sold. He definitely didn't "flee Russia". Durov family and close-to-the-oligarchs-and/or-siloviki parts of the Russian elites had parted ways on good terms.
> Here in Silicon Valley there's often surprise at my reluctance ...

It's definitely not just the Valley. I live in rural western Ohio. It was really eye-opening to see how much contamination there is even here, in a relatively sparsely-populated area. Once I knew the extent my feelings about local real estate changed dramatically. Everybody should research toxic sites in their area.

No doubt the manufacturing center in Dayton, OH, helped drive local contamination. I'm in a suburb 30 miles away in another county, however. We've got fun Superfund sites like the old county incinerator (PCB), two contaminated aquifers (tetrachloroethene and trichloroethylene) under the largest town in the County (from three sources, too!), and lead from a battery "recycler".

I simply can't understand the mentality earlier generations had re: environmental contamination. I hear it in my father (71) re: anthropogenic climate change ("I can't believe the activities of humans could change such a large system...") and I imagine similar sentiments were in the minds of people dumping PCB or lead into the ground. It's chilling to me.
If there wasn't a competing drug there would be no need for ads, the only drug would get prescribed anyways.
Searching locally showed me 100% porn/sex worker accounts that appear to be fakes and bots but I didn't inquire.
Zero in the EU