skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Used to work at a payments company. Yes, you need to be *very* explicit in how you model currency amounts and precision. See also earlier post about Canadian rounding rules. Some of the "logic" is regulatory/compliance driven.

ref child post about stocks trading for 0.0001. Yes, those are real trades and (probably) fully legal etc, but I'm not sure the Fed recognizes currency amounts less than 1 US cent ($0.01), so the accounting rules and tax rules might not match expectations based on generalized floating point math.
Regulation is key, but I don’t see it as likely when our society is poisoned by culture war bs. Once we put that behind us (currently unlikely), we can pass sane laws reigning in huge corporations.
Looks cool, do you have a picture of a finished product?
Honestly given many of these stories, $500 seems to be getting off pretty lightly.

It’s still absurd to me that many (most?) of these hosting/bandwidth providers don’t seems to allow automatic cut offs and such
EmailJS linked to my gmail account. So far it is enough. When it won’t be enough, I’ll use Mailgun.
> the rest of the system is all done on the state level

Ok. Didn't know that. But you are talking about public services aren't you? I would assume a rather small fraction of the huge US health expenses are publicly financed. The bigger part is completely private businesses, both service production and insurances for those who have one.

That's the opposite in most EU countries and UK. A large fraction is either produced publicly or if produced privately then paid for by a publicly organized health insurance.
It's black on white for me. I wonder if it has different color styling for different devices.
Same! Also recreated the clear memory screen to protect all of that hard work.

Initially I was giving the programs to friends. Math teacher caught me and I thought I was getting in trouble for it. Nope! She said 'Never give away your work like that. Make them pay for it.'

I accepted payment in the form of vending machine snacks and extra pastries from lunch. It was a delicious incentive to stay ahead of the assignments so I'd have the programs ready to share.
Are you an expert on this code? Because I’ve read quite a few interviews with experts in international humanitarian law, and they pretty much agree that what Israel did was criminal.

https://theintercept.com/2024/09/19/israel-pager-walkie-talk...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/18/do-lebanon-explosio...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/18/the-gu...
I think it's the exact opposite honestly. I use chatgtp because it's not a google or facebook product and this isn't a unique sentiment among my developer friends.
1) Kamal is more geared towards having one VPS for project - it' made for big projects really. They also show on the demo that even the db is hosted on its own VPS. Which is great! But not for me or Sidekick target audience. Kamal V2 will support multi-projects on a single VPS afaik

2) yes yes yes! I really like litestream. Also backup is one of those critical but annoying thing that Sidekick is meant to take care of for you. I'll look into Bearman. My vision is like we would have one command for most popular db types and it would use stubs to configure everything the right way. Need to sort out docker-compose support first though...
Thankfully it doesn't do this on MacOS at least. Otherwise I'd have to start reformatting my remaining Windows 10 machines with Linux (sooner than I was going to)
Would such a monarchy remain stable enough to survive? In the whole of Africa, there's only one absolute monarchy (Swaziland).

> there still exists a strong allegiance to the tribe (original nation) over the independent, makeshift nation

Perhaps too strong allegiance? In places where the centralized state becomes weak / collapses, clan violence tends to intensify (Somalia, South Sudan). These larger "makeshift" nations seem to have a somewhat calming effect on the ethnic conflicts.
Happywhale
Yuck. But it might work.

I'd prefer something that is somewhat less of a perversion of the Constitution, though. Find some other grounds on which zoning is unconstitutional. (The advantage of that is that governments aren't allowed to do what's unconstitutional, whether or not the federal government has the right to overrule local law.

Like, zoning might be considered a "taking". The government has taken from me the right to build a skyscraper on this piece of land, so they have to make "just compensation" - they have to pay me the difference between what the land is worth now and what it would have been worth if I could build the skyscraper on it. Making zoning that expensive could make it impossible for local governments to do it.
Makes sense, the EU favors architecture astronauts over profitable technology.
In the matter of corporations vs governments, if you tally up number of people shot it's clear which of the two is more dangerous. You would think Europe of all regions would be quick to recognize this.

I don't like corporations spying on me, but it doesn't scare me nearly as much as the government doing it. In fact the principle risk from corporations keeping databases is giving the government something to snatch.
The same thing happens every 3-5 years. HowStuffWorks, About.com (now like 10 different domains), many IAC acquired properties, RedVenture sites, even random sites like LiveStrong.com will be wildly prominent when the domains historically aren't relevant or authoritative for a given niche.

Even recently, sites like CNN were using subdomains with affiliate offers managed by third parties(1). These sites weren't being de-ranked algorithmically-- someone at Google would have to apply a manual action to remove them from the SERPs. What incentive would there be to do so if a prior agreement was in place?

Google doesn't really care about discoverability for smaller domains that may have good content. They are either being risk averse (avoiding potential spammers, junk AI content) by favoring trusted domains, favoring brands who are likely to spend on display or search ads, or maybe a combination of these.

1) https://searchengineland.com/google-begins-enforcement-of-si...
This is really cool! I'll check it out :)
I think the hardest thing about books like SICP, or the Knuth texts, for "casual hobby programmers" is the need to tear themselves away from thinking in the idioms of popular languages like Python, Javascript or (back in the day) VB.

It's almost like having a Zen master trying to teach you the principles of Zen using a special artificial language with simple but precise semantics, that you have to learn first (and understand thoroughly), rather than try to learn it in a conversational language.

It's a difficult task, but ultimately rewarding. However, it is a struggle to turn your mind away from Javascript when looking at an algorithm or a data structure being taught by one of these texts, and use the simpler semantics of Scheme or "literate programming".
Because how else would they know that Kamala used to work in mcdonalds. Pure gold in western media.
> I mean, sure. And while we're at it pigs should fly.

Pigs have significantly higher density than birds and lack wings. Getting them to fly under their own power would be quite a challenge. By contrast, installing Tor Browser is actually pretty easy.

> Your actual communications can be secure, but that doesn't stop a bad actor/government from picking you up and beating you with a wrench until you talk - if they get suspicious enough.

In general this is not what happens in e.g. the United States. The act of installing or using Tor doesn't in and of itself cause anyone to beat you with a wrench. Try it. Visit HN using Tor Browser. No one comes in the night to put a bag over your head.

> Just saying "everyone should use these tools!" is not actually a counter-argument. It's a fine long term goal, but it's not addressing the real risk that some folks might be in.

If you live in an authoritarian country and actively oppose the government, you are already doing something that will get you punished if you're caught and then the question is, which is more likely to get you caught? Tor has several measures to reduce the probability that you're detected. Private entry guards, pluggable transports, etc. You might still get caught, but these things reduce the probability, whereas if you openly oppose the government without using any privacy technology, you're much easier to catch. Using it in this case is pretty clearly to your advantage.

If you live in a country that has a modicum of respect for fundamental rights like privacy and due process, then you can use Tor when you're not breaking any laws and are just trying to avoid being tracked across the internet by Google and Facebook, because using Tor isn't in itself illegal. And doing this not only benefits you, it benefits the people in the first group who need it even more than you do, because it makes them stand out less.

So who are the people who shouldn't be using it?
> Profound Threats to Users Can Occur When Targeting Occurs Based
on Sensitive Categories

> Targeted ads based on knowledge about protected categories can be especially distressing. One example is when someone has not disclosed their sexual orientation publicly, but an ad assumes their sexual orientation. Another example is when a retailer identifies someone as pregnant and targets ads for baby products before others, including family, even know about the pregnancy. These types of assumptions and inferences upon which targeted advertising is based can in some instances result in emotional distress, lead to individuals being misidentified or misclassified, and cause other harms.

If this is one of the biggest harms the FTC can come up with, then honestly as a consumer I don't really care. Having free youtube is worth getting a few mistargeted ads, or I CAN JUST TURN TARGETED ADS OFF. Advertising isn't someone harassing you, its an ad that I can close or just report as not being accurate. I'd really be interested to hear from someone who thinks getting a mistargeted ad is in top 10 most stressful things in their life.

What I would really be interested in is the raw responses from the companies, not this report.
Definitely! The key difference is open source. I feel like there have been several times when I wanted to build something that didn't exist on Strava but had no way to do it.

I'd also like it to be something you can use with Strava and provide deeper insights specifically for marathon runners.
While I loathe the useless abstraction layer that is story points and while I generally agree with all of the points in articles like these, they almost never talk about the other side of the coin, which is the need for predictability.

Predictability is the oil that makes nearly every software business run efficiently and smoothly. It affects everything from software development to product roadmap to financial efficiency and profitability. Startups need to know if they have the ability to implement critical functionality before they're out of runway; big companies need to be able to coordinate product development, contracts, delivery dates, product launches across many disparate teams with interconnecting dependencies. Even deciding whether or not something is a roadmap priority requires some concept of how quickly you can implement it.

So yes, productivity theater, as it exists in many project management processes today is unnecessary overhead and wasted time/money. But unless you are id software in the late 90s—flush with cash and sitting on a couple of products that only you can bring to market—you can't rely on "it'll be done when it's done" or "you'll know when it's ready when you see it" and expect to remain competitive for long.

EDIT: Mobile typos.
It's largely not anything new. They reworked the UI on the long standing Microsoft Remote Desktop app and added "Teams Optimization". I think that last bit was just to make me viscerally angry.
It definitely could have been much worse. We burned through our monthly allocation in 6 hours HAHA, I'm grateful that our allocation wasn't something like 10TB
Could you elaborate more about metrics and logs feeling bungee strapped together?

For logs it's going to necessarily be a bit messier IMO. Logs in OTel are designed to just be your existing application logs, but an SDK or agent can wrap those with a trace and span ID to correlate them for you. And so the benefit is you can bring your existing logs, but the downside is there's no clean framework to use for logging effectively, meaning there's a great deal of variability in the quality of those logs. It's also still rolling out across the languages, so while you might have excellent support in something like Java, the support in Node isn't as clean right now.

Metrics is pretty well-baked, but it's a different model and wire format than Prometheus or other systems.
Don’t worry. They will soon rename and release different variations: ‘Windows App Home’, Windows App Plus’, Windows App for 365’, ‘Windows App Server’, ‘Windows App Plus for Enterprise’, ‘Windows App Entra’, ‘Windows App CoPilot’, ‘Windows App Copilot Plus for 365”, and ‘Windows App CoPilot Plus for Enterprise 365 Entra Admin’. Monthly tiered pricing plans are currently being finalized.
Yup deploy hooks are on my mind. Just didn't put them on Readme. Shouldn't be very hard to implement. Might do this first before docker-compose support.
Apple introduces California driver's licenses and state IDs in Apple Wallet
The discussion linked in the post is from 2022, and the corresponding issue has already been fixed:

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40220332

I wonder if there is a more recent bug related to this?
So you'd be good with this kind of attack happening in your neighborhood, with your family members killed or maimed?

Fair game as long as it's wartime and the intended targets are military personnel?
We were pretty careful about what we were blocking here -- had the exact same concern. Hopefully it doesn't come back to bite us in the future (new blogpost incoming?)
From my experience on the Raspberry Pi rp2040, adding C code to a micropython build is very straightforward
That's a very good question. So the DSL here operates an agnostic source/dest transaction model, which is akin to the credit/debit model sans the semantic baggage. The goal of this model is indeed to be "tracking transactions" in the abstract sense, having the benefit of not forcing accounting decisions too early on when there is (still yet) none.

For example, if you create a transaction moving money from "@stripe:main" to "@acct:123" and "@acct:234", you're merely representing the fact that you want this money to be moved. Wether the movement is clearing off a liability or generating revenue is another concern that you (in our model) want to take care of in a separate layer, that will also likely involve some intense intentionality and iterations from your accounting team.

In a sense, it's as close to accounting than it is to warehousing money, moving unitary boxes of it from one location to another.

These two models have the same amount of information per entry, so they can actually be converted from one to another, enabling you to also represent some accounting-ish transactions with this DSL, e.g. with a send [USD/2 100] from @ar:invoices:1234 to @sales.
Reminds me of "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" by Ted Chiang. It's part of his 2019 collection Exhalation: Stories.

In this story, people use a device called a *Prism*, which allows them to communicate with alternate versions of themselves in different quantum realities. The Prisms create a split in reality when activated, connecting two timelines that diverge from the moment the device is used. People can talk to their alternate selves in these parallel universes, and this communication brings up complex philosophical questions about free will, decision-making, and identity.

Chiang explores the emotional and ethical implications of interacting with alternate versions of one's life, focusing on how people cope with the knowledge of the different paths their lives might have taken.

-> thanx Chat.
Disney imagined future transportation (1958) [video]
Some predictions seem remarkably plausible or even accurate.
In classic recent Microsoft style, the name is rubbish, and they are gradually mobile-ifying their UI.
I always thought these creatures of microscopic silica formed hard glass-like structures as part of the fossilization over millions of years, but nope, I was shocked to find out those glass structures are their cell walls WHILE they're alive.

They look like they'd form their shape like a snowflake does, but it's their DNA controlling the shape.
See also the Pivotal Commware[0] repeater solution.

[0] http://www.pivotalcommware.com/
Use your imagination?
…Or, your cat did? Or small children, or something bumping a key unbeknownst yo you…

But I agree that configurable is generally better.
I suppose having quick access to a database in case of emergency without having to rush to a computer, similar to how some people treat having SSH clients on their phones.
I'm guessing a CSS file didn't load for you? It looks fine for me.
Because it wastes a lot of money catering to extrovert inclinations.

If 10% of the workforce loves pizza and the other 90% is lactose intolerant should we order pizza for the office every day and just let 90% of it go to waste? This is only really a discussion because working in an office was the norm for so long.
There's a simple one-liner uBlock Origin filter that does this, without opening yourself up to the possibility that this extension gets monetized with a spyware SDK in the future.
At the most basic level we're talking about a very public service that has been around for a long time that is a potential weakness/ enormous target for the best funded and most technically proficient intelligence agencies in the world.
It isn't exactly news, though. This isn't a Forbes issue, or a Google issue. Pretty much every single large company is actively being ruined by parasites. We're dealing with a generation of CEOs / CFOs who were taught to care about nothing except short-term shareholder value. Quality and reputation doesn't matter anymore, so you replace your products with cheap garbage and hope nobody notices. When that inevitably fails, every single part of the company including its name is being torn apart and sold piece by piece, until nothing is left but an empty shell with a lot of debt.

We're intentionally ruining our economies and praising the people doing it. If the "Western" world gets economically steamrolled by Asia in the next couple of decades, we've got nobody to blame for it but ourselves.
As if Marvel canon wasn't confusing enough already, now customs is involved? Sheesh.

Are we going to get a Troy Miller origin story? Bit by an improperly declared radioactive package, he dedicated his life to defending our borders from the Guild of Calamitous Import.
Intel Core 2 Duo, Dual Core CPU..
Being the exception to the rule doesn’t disprove the rule
It is not "new". In the Mac space it was called "Microsoft Remote Desktop Client" and that client had messages saying it was going to be renamed in the near future for the last few weeks. It's just largely a UI facelift.
Apple wasn't listed and (outside the app store) doesn't collect the data described in the press release.
FreeCAD and its CAM Workbench?

For the light version maybe Solvespace?

I'm still amazed by Dune 3D: https://dune3d.org/ where the Github page has the footnote:

>I ended up directly using solvespace's solver instead of the suggested wrapper code since it didn't expose all of the features I needed. I also had to patch the solver to make it sufficiently fast for the kinds of equations I was generating by symbolically solving equations where applicable.
Retrospective review of early COVID-19 cases identified 174 patients with onset in December 2019, 32% of whom had an ascertained link to this location, within a city of over 12 million...a geospatial analysis of residences of the early cases with no identified link to the Huanan market showed that they lived unexpectedly close to and centered around the market,3,5 even though geographic proximity was not used as a case criterion.

The genomic epidemiology of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) shows that there were very few human infections before the earliest ascertained market case with onset on December 10th, 2019.

In February 2020, China’s government enacted a far-reaching ban on the sale of wildlife for human consumption.

Zoonotic spillovers in wildlife markets have long been known to present risks for viral emergence.

This has significant implications for urban planning and community development as a means to protect human health, a function the field once served which was a primary purpose at one time but which gets relatively short shrift these days.

Haussman's redesign of Paris was prompted by high death rates due to disease for poor Parisians living in overcrowded slums. His redesign is still world influencing and Paris remains famous as a very livable city.

Urban planners used to routinely consider things like walkability of the city not as a matter of convenience for residents but as a means to ensure people got adequate exercise in day-to-day life without really trying or having to join a gym and make time in their day for it. This kind of thinking has largely been abandoned in urban planning circles.

Time to bring it back with an eye towards "How do we stop disease transmission across large expanses of space?"

Disease wiped out a lot of Natives when Europeans began coming to The New World (aka The Americas). In some cases, entire tribes went extinct. Disease likely killed far more Natives than conflict with European settlers.

Hundreds of years later and planet Earth still can't get the memo about travel and disease transmission as evidenced by the pandemic.
Interesting setup....

How do you run the containers on your VPS tho? You could still use Sidekick for that!

I think your setup is one step up in security from Sidekick nonetheless. A lot more work it seems too
> apparently removing a guard is the normal professional practice for a lot of well-founded reasons.

Dunno why there are no transparent guard to use when you want to see properly.
Show HN: MIDI Database, an open source library of MIDI implementations
I hope this will be as pleasant and performant as Teams aka how to make your 16-core CPU feel like it is an Intel Atom from 2009.
Indeed old timer commies of HN might get irritated by that phrase, but in this corner of the world we love Democracy. This summer would pretty dry in my region because of global warming, but thanks to Democracy we had plenty of precipitation in the form of MK-84s. I wonder which neighboring country is going to get her share next year, it's a gift that never stopped giving since some 20 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror
https://youtube.com/shorts/6WgklDqOnH4

I think his personal involvement in any given project is already quite limited. He’s created a huge, soulless machine that churns out videos for the sole purpose of achieving some YouTube high score, and he just pokes his nose in here and there to be the face of the operation and ensure it remains well-oiled.

Edit: that ”just” is obviously doing a ton of lifting because it’s likely still a huge amount of work on his part, but my point is that it’s not like he lovingly crafts all these clips by himself.
23andMe Is Just 'Me' Now
The immediate impact of this is simple, Remote Desktop apps previously made by Microsoft are being re-branded to be the "Windows App"

As far as long-term impact,
Im curious to know how this might impact Windows developers.
Does this push developers to choose native platforms over the unnecessary aditional abstration of running within windows?
IE: If your user base simply starts using their iphones to occasionally access your application via the windows app, does this push your team to just choose to build an iphone app?

Or does this become the best way for developers to build a cross-platform experiences?