skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It used to be pretty common for US schools to have a pool (often in the basement!) and teach swimming, but seems to have gotten less-so over time, I suppose because of the cost, and pressure from increasing costs in other areas.

I attended a couple schools that had pools in the basement that had been closed for a decade or more, and have heard of several others. The only one I know of that was still operational was in an old private school.
Lol, they were.

“In its evidence to the committee, the Environment Agency said that in 2021 the environmental performance of water companies was “at its lowest ever level” and the performance of most companies was declining.”” - https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/cleaning-up-failures-in-w...

“Sewage spills in the UK hit a record high in 2023, amplifying public anger at the state of the country's dirty rivers and the private companies responsible for the pollution, such as the country's biggest supplier, Thames Water.”
- https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/uk-aims-curb-wa...
AWS does regular integrity checks on all media, and repairs any errors it finds. This includes Glacier and Deep Glacier. (It's in the first few bits of the S3 docs)

Backblaze B2 is untrustworthy. I specified a bad encryption key- and it accepted the data, but it wasn't retreiveable.

For the extra $1/TB/mo Wasabi is the best For hot backups, IMHO.

Also, I theorize that you can avoid the major cost of AWS Glacier deep archive by downloading it through CloudFront- which has 1TB/no free.

So:
1. Make your restore request near the end of the month.
2. Glacier restore ~2TB of days (bulk restore, slow.) to S3 hot tier.
3. Download 1TB while on the tail end of the first month, and another 1TB when CloudFront resets.

The huge egress costs are minimized this way, as well as minimizing the GB/s charges of regular S3.
Trying not to see it black and white because I do support unions to a point but it is hard not to think negative things about a union being pushy at a place like Boeing. I know one engineer there and she was incredibly bright. I'm hoping for the best outcome so they win and everyone in the USA wins because a company like Boeing nose diving is bad for everyone.
API Request Replaying Package
Ever had an API request fail due to a temporary issue like network issues, rate limits or a service being down? What if your app could automatically retry those requests saving you from manual recovery?
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Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on ARM64 and x86 (2022)
Oracle's AWS deal completes Big 3 triumvirate; questions remain over licensing
It's a classic chesterton fence phenomena, It's just that we can't connect the externalities to the fence.
It takes less than a minute to walk calmly from my front door in an apartment complex to a public beach in Tampere, Finland. In my neighbourhood, you just see random people walking on the sidewalk in bathrobes on their way to the beach or back. It's 15 minutes walk from the city center.
Which, as rated by average women, is almost the same thing....
I don't know how much money the internet archive has received from official US government institutions, but they do receive at least some as you can see from their list of foundations that help with funding them: https://archive.org/about/
Annapurna is a god of food and nourishment in Hinduism; a manifestation of Parvati.
You could make the same argument about a 250 euro espresso machine and a 30 euro moka pot. If the materials are better and the buyer likes it, it’s worth it to them at least. I think most people who own an espresso machine understand it’s a luxury.
We all have to sell ourselves in order to live. I'm sure that there are plenty of people working at jobs that they thoroughly dislike. Shouldn't we concentrate on making sure that people really have a choice rather than on discriminating against people who make a choice?
"Value" is whatever shareholders want it to be.

In the case of a public company that is assumed to be profit, because the shareholders are a vast and ever changing group. Annapurna isn't public, so it serves whatever the private owners want.

Even in a publicly traded stock, the company charter can specify something other than profit. The shareholders know that when they buy stock.

In other words there is more leeway than we commonly give credit. The notion of a fiduciary duty to be greedy is pushed by psychopathic CEOs but isn't really what the law says.
I would dare to disagree, and my source is meself as I'm from the region. You're mixing up social conservatism with protestantism apparently. For starters, Eastern Europe is quite a big thing. Some parts of it are very religious, and some completely not. But it's not the point: it's absolutely not OK on a mainstream level of society of probably all EE, and former USSR countries to earn on onlyfans. And FWIW being publicly known as a subscriber puts LOOSER over one's forehead
Also get a copy of the Big Blue Book of Bicycle Repair from Park tools. A good reference before the Internet. There are other good books as well that cover specific parts - The Bicycle Wheel by Jobst Brandt is good too if you want to go really in depth on spoked wheels.
No, DNA is terrible. Microsoft's Project Silica seems to be the contender for indefinite, maintenance free, storage. But, there's the whole "It's Glass" issue.
I started writing Haskell in something like.. 2008 or so. Before that, I was an avid low-level programmer that sneered at high level languages that held your hand.

I quickly realized the folly of my ways, however, and became what I would call a Haskell zealot. It was my favorite and most-used programming language, and I even wrote it professionally very early in my career.

As my career progressed and I had to use other languages, Haskell quickly lost its shine. It's just not a very practical language, no matter what they like to claim from their academic ivory tower. I wasn't some sort of novice. I could speak fluent lens and was well-versed in arcane type theoretic concepts, wrote entire data pipelines using recursion-schemes and what have you.

The problem with Haskell it's just way too far out on the spectrum of purity, I think. Everything is way too cumbersome because the language is so rigid. Building real software in Haskell, while trying to make use of its advanced features, is sort of like wanting to do basic arithmetic for your budget, but starting out by proving that mathematics actually make sense. Naturally, you don't have to build your software like that, and it seems like a lot of actually practical haskell apps out there aren't written like this.

Nevertheless, Haskell fundamentally changed the way I view programming and I learned many incredibly useful things, which I have taken with me. Try to keep your functions pure and small. Use static types, and lean on the type system to help you prove that you have covered all cases. Stuff like that.
I don't think anyone was suggesting to go for the 'parameterized model' from the start. They could just hide the eyes while typing, as a good starting point.
Bong shop in Berkeley, CA
>That's a classic auto ignition system.

I just fixed up a 1972 Honda motorcycle, and when I took the cover off the ignition point it was fascinating looking at that whole system, so simple and easy to fix.
Because what you're asking for precludes the concept of mathematical guarantees. I'm not taking your question at face value, because you could be asking why call site code should break when the type signature generalises (which is a useful thing), but that's not what you're asking.

It seems you're asking for code to be both null safe and not null safe simultaneously.

Having a language just decide that it would like to change the types of the values flowing through a system is wild. It's one of the reasons that JavaScript is a trash fire.
> This is delusional. Unions are generally bad for companies and almost always bad for shareholders.

And? It's not the union's job to be good for companies or shareholders, it's their job to be good for workers.

> Unions are rarely interested in the "health" of the company itself but rather in their control (which is at conflict with shareholder control) and their compensation (again, eating from shareholder compensation).

Yes, and? You say this like it's a bad thing.

> Unions also use aggressive measures (strikes, shutdowns, etc...) rather than negotiations.

When you/workers are only used for their labour, withholding labour may be the only bargaining chip you have. Why not use said chip?

Or perhaps companies can treat their workers well so that they don't feel compelled to form unions. There are a number of auto plants in southern Ontario, and most are union shops, except Toyota's: the CAW has been trying to organize for many years, but the workers always vote "no". Seems like Toyota treats them well that the workers don't need organization 'against' the company.

Perhaps other companies can learn a lesson from that.
For purely personal stuff which I only access from my devices, I use SSL client certificates in front of normal auth. The rest of services are mostly public anyway.
This is an interesting one, would love to see more of this happening
Funny how the article gets the small providers like signal as example as if Messenger, WhatsApp, telegram shouldnt be responsible for all the crimes they profit from
Exposed: Israeli spies control your VPN
Dockerfiles compose and aren't restricted to running on linux. Those two reasons alone basically mean I never need to care about systemd again
> Hot tweezers is a fun idea we've been talking about. How would you like to see it implemented?

I suppose probably as a separate USB-C soldering iron. I was initially thinking of them as an attachment to the existing iron that would add an extra grip section, but now that I'm thinking about it a bit more that might be a bit too unwieldy. (And it would be helpful for hot tweezers to also have swappable tips for working with different components.)

> We'll post more documentation on the serial interface, it's pretty straightforward. A temperature control program would be no problem.

Thank you! I wish more companies would be this open about their products' interfaces.
My dilemma: at age 76 I may not have 10 years, much less 10 minutes. Which is why I took the plunge.
Bronte beach checks all the boxes: Open water surf, natural rock pool (Bogey Hole), and ocean pools.
Editing live TV in VR: behind the scenes in our latest DIY project
Show HN: Single Fucking Webpage
You can press the 'directly related' button at start of chat by "what do you know about [me/x]?" where you, or x, are discussed in the profile.

Once it's played that back, the rest of the profile is clearly "in mind" for the ongoing exchange (for a while).
Interesting- my first time reading about Kamal. I personally used watchtower (https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower) to check for and deploy container updates from the GitHub Container Registry and push new images there from Actions. I also used OpenTofu to automate the VPS provisioning in GH Actions.
It would be interesting to read about self-hosted/ free monitoring & analytics solutions for this stack.
Everything in there seems fine to me, not sure what you’re talking about
I agree but not because "boohoo people aren't nice enough to us" – because it's a tough market to break into with (justifiably) high regulatory scrutiny, high R&D costs and few investors who know what they are doing.

It's very natural that any company be subject to scrutiny – this doesn't mean that you shouldn't set up a company or that the environment for setting up a company isn't favourable.
Aren't these the same guys who published Stray?
I adored Donut County, it had everything I could possible want from a game about trash pandas and LA county donut culture.
It’s not even a rewrite, there’s no evidence provided.
Ask HN: Is it just me or LangChain/LangGraph DevEx horrible?
Full Disclosure: I'm the author of genkitx-graph and been part of Firebase Genkit early access. Still i'm using langchain & langgraph because they are the industry standard and have more functionality compared to genkit. But, compared to Firebase Genkit it has a very primitive DevEx

1. There's no Dev UI to play with chains, runnables and models.

2. There's no local tracing for debugging.

3. You have to manually run a chain or runnable to debug.

4. LangGraph studio is heavy and buggy. Often crashes my docker and takes 10+ GB of space.

5. LangGraph feels very restrictive and hacky when trying to build advanced graphs (subgraphs, private state, having separate edges and conditional edges rather than letting each node decide which node is next).
I'm not advocating for removing the existing articles that introduce people to Haskell.
In Toronto, we have a serious problem with out old combined sewage system and the lack of transparency from all levels of government on the reality of the water quality. I appreciate the work by Swim Drink Fish:

The name Swim Drink Fish comes from signs that are all too often found on shorelines around Canada: no swimming, no fishing, and no drinking. Our organisation’s goal is simple: restore the health of local waters so that every last one of those signs is removed. We strive for a world where every watershed can be enjoyed by the communities, doing what they love.

https://www.swimdrinkfish.ca/
my first thought was, oh weird, swimming to commute?
Hmm. I'm far from an expert, but I have seen chefs at work in person in about a dozen michelin star places over the years, and in videos/books/etc. of many more. My anecdotal experiences have lead me to believe that no, the knives they use for the majority of tasks day in and day out are not $50 knives. They might have some cheaper knives (usually victorinox from what I've seen) for specific purposes but when it came to chef's knives/gyutos, they were all more expensive. Not necessarily super expensive - I've seen tons of Globals, Macs, and Misonos over the years and their stuff is more like the $150-$200ish range. But I've also seen people with high-end small production Japanese blacksmiths, too.
I don’t disagree much. Still, there’s a sudden weakening of the main incumbent in the on-prem virtualization market… and that is _all_ Oxide does. It will be interesting to see whether Oxide can convert some VMWare customers.
It may seem like this makes sense, but in most places it's the opposite. Low income women are single mothers at a higher rate than women with high salaries.

In most western countries, low income women do not become much poorer if they become single mothers. In some places, it increases their living standards. But for upper middle class families, a breakup tends to be costly.

Also, there seems to be shared causal factors that lead to both stable relationships and financial stability. Such as impulse control, mental/physical health and the ability to postpone gratification.
In the US, we've essentially banned swimming outside of a few lifeguard-monitored zones. There are no swimming signs everywhere and in places you wouldn't otherwise think should be banned, such as public lakes or beaches. People still do swim in these areas, but I remember a squad of cop cars showing up at Lake Artemesia near UMD because a woman was gasp swimming in the lake.
> Does 25519 suffer from key/data-dependant execution time?

I mean, when implemented naively, yes, but the industry has been aware of timing attacks for decades such that this is table stakes for any crypto implementations.

From the article:

> We also do our best to execute the algorithms in constant time, to thwart side-channel attacks that infer secret information from the durations of computations.

https://github.com/awslabs/s2n-bignum (where most of the heavy lifting is done, per the article) further explicitly states that "Each function is moreover written in a constant-time style to avoid timing side-channels."
An Energy-Intensive Pipe Dream with Little Acceptance
Perhaps the lack of a "pat on the back" is society's fault.
Moka and espresso machines produce different coffee though. They operate on the same principle but the pressures are much different.
Copenhagen’s sewage system was built in the 1850s and it was indeed considered to build a two-pronged solution. There was much resistance against this because it would eliminate a whole industry of “night men” (poop collectors), as well as people drying and trading it as fertilizer. So they build a single-pronged solution that was initially only allowed to be used for rain water.

https://ing.dk/artikel/ingenioerer-maatte-kaempe-haardt-faa-...
It ran for me?
I would be in a relationship even with a current OF-girl. Not because "feminism told me so", but because I don't see anything wrong with it.

Would you not have a relationship with someone you like and likes you back? Because patriarchy told you so?
Cop Who Lied to Justify Drug Raid Says He's Not Responsible for Resulting Deaths
> it is hard not to think negative things about a union being pushy at a place like Boeing

Hard not to think negative things about a union being "pushy" at a place where there are serious cultural failings around safety, the company has engaged on a decades-long campaign of financial engineering where it has slashed investment into the company and instead paid out huge dividents to its shareholders, and the company regularly pursues and demonises whistleblowers (partly in what a cynical person might term collusion with the regulator, but also independently) who attempt to apply pressure to the company to improve and inform the public about the risk to life that the dangerous practices the finance types at Boeing have adopted.
Sure, but companies and shareholders are the most destructive forces on earth. I have a hard time seeing investor tears as anything but a glimmer of hope.
Show HN: Get candid feedback from your friends, family and coworkers
I've been frustrated lately by how rarely people give honest feedback. Most of the time, they’re too afraid of hurting our feelings. However, feedback is incredibly valuable for both personal and professional growth.

Inspired by the concept of Radical Candor (popularized by Kim Scott and Reed Hastings), I wanted to create a way for people to feel less hesitant about sharing candid feedback more openly.

The idea behind this tool is to gather feedback from multiple sources, then use AI to combine and anonymize it. This way, the feedback isn’t personally identifiable, making people more comfortable sharing what’s really on their minds.

Please give it a try, and let me know if you have any ideas for improvement.

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Finally all those banks with randomised input grids on their websites are validated!
The problem is being able to sue for something like defamation. At the extreme, like happens in Brazil, innocent people are sent to jail for criticizing politicians.

https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-suits-defamation
Use shell autocomplete. Even `bash-completion` suggests arguments for the key type these days:

$ ssh-keygen -t <TAB>
dsa ecdsa ecdsa-sk ed25519 ed25519-sk rsa

`-sk` is short for "security key" if memory serves me right, and is used with FIDO2 hardware tokens.
> important role in shaping and controlling today's societies

In what ways?

As an industry, it seems pretty much a pariah. In terms of political power, the religious organisations that that pressure the finance system to break ties with pornography seem more powerful. Maybe it influences culture/perceptions about relationships and sex in more ways than I can see.
True, although it's not clear exactly what this is really doing. The RL was presumably trained on human input, but the overall agentic flow (it seems this is an agent), sounds to me like a neuro-symbolic hybrid, potentially brute force iterating to great depth, so maybe more computer than brain inspired.

It seems easy to imagine this type of approach being super human on narrow tasks that play to it's strengths such as pure reasoning tasks (math/science), but it's certainly not AGI as for example there is no curiosity to explore the unknown, no ability to learn from exploration, etc.

It'll take a while to become apparent exactly what types of real world application this is useful for, both in terms of capability and cost.
Meh, it's pretty easy. "My wife gave me the card, just in case."

That'll generally only go wrong if you're not married. ;)
What does it mean to do winter bathing throughout the year? Do you call it that in June still?
Admittedly I didn't look at the code but that was the point. To see how little effort I could put in to get a pdf from my JSON. I suspect tons of bugs but it worked for my test.
Interesting if true. Someone has to verify facts presented independently. Since the source MintPress News, first reporting from them can't be trusted at all.

Looking into it, it seems accurate, but it's not first reporting.

What is Kape Technologies? What you need to know about the parent company of CyberGhost VPN
Analysis: VPNs should be about enhancing privacy, but CyberGhost's parent company gives us trust issues. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/what-is-kape...

Israeli cybersecurity firm buys ExpressVPN for close to $1b
Kape Technologies has been acquiring a number of companies in the VPN and data security space in recent years; this deal is one of the biggest buys by an Israeli company
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-cybersecurity-firm-buy...
Arguably a lot of people consider it too cold most of the year.
But otherwise I would say that when the weather is good the water is filled quite up with people at a comfortable level!
> The libraries for most production-type activities have gotten a lot more mature.

Can you provide an example of a "mature" way to match a regular expression with Unicode character classes or download a file over HTTPS?
That tells us nothing useful about the state of things 15+yrs ago. Only that 2023 was the worst. Could have been bad for 100yrs, just the worst in 2023.
It is a different type of coffee, you cant compare.

And "understanding it is a luxury" is why the prices are extreme.
A landslide tsunami in Greenland vibrated Earth for 9 days in 2023 [video]
i can tell you that more often than not it will make 500% better espresso.

I've owned 5 machines from varying price categories and the number of features you get with a machine around ~1200 gets you the most consistent experience.

can you make a good shot of espresso with a ~250 euro machine? absolutely. can you make 2-5 back to back great shots? probably not. Can you use any bean you want and get a good shot? probably not.

its all about what you value in your experience.
Thank you for the close reading! That’s definitely a mistake on my part, I’ll fix it shortly.
Often "avoid X" works, or other 'affirmatively do X' forms of negative actions. also, and works better than or.

Iffy: do not use jargon or buzzwords

Works: avoid jargon and buzzwords
This sounds very interesting! I will check it out.
yeah but they aren't letting you see the useful chain of thought reasoning that is crucial to train a good model. Everyone will replicate this over next 6 months
A lot of the people in the city might go the 'real' beaches instead.
I love this. You can say what you want with everyone wearing airpods all the time but I think there is a lot less stigma with wearing them as opposed to hearing aids.

Plus hearing loss is a major risk factor for dementia. So this is big!
This is a good articulation of the ambivalence I can feel around this.

One approach that I’ve considered is to start with the standard tooling (k8s + gitops) from day one, but still run it in a single VM. Any thoughts?
It's literally the first game mentioned in the article...
The creators are desperate for a hedge against Youtube, which unilaterally controls their compensation and can deplatform them at any time.
Huh. I thought that Medicare had a cap, too, just a higher one.

Also note that FICA is only on "earned income" (not interest, dividends, capital gains, rental income...), and is not subject to the standard deductions.