skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many problems with what you've written here as well as bot-like behavior in the responses that have telltale signs of vote manipulation and propaganda similar to Chinese state-run campaigns.

We will have to disagree. You have clearly contradicted yourself in at least one way, and attempt to mislead readers in a number of other ways which I won't go into here.

From these, I have to come to the conclusion that you don't have credibility.

The downtime would not have happened if they had followed professional practices. Even a qualified Administrator coming into the outage fresh would have had a fix within 30 minutes if they were working at a professional level.

Yes shit happens, but professionals have processes in place so that common shit does not just happen. This was preventable.
I don’t think you’re being pedantic. You’re just making a weird assumption that the radio itself is the only resource. I learned a ton from this as a kid. And I learned from Radio Shack. You stare at it, you go research, you try to fix it, you fail. Talk to someone who knows stuff. Repeat until it works or you work on a new one.

It’s really no different than how I taught myself to fix a chain or replace a spoke. Or know to use WD-40 to clean, but then apply an oil to keep stuff lubricated and protected.

With the internet, it’s a lot easier. I can look up spec sheets just googling component markings and see the sample circuits.

I’ve stared at the Linux kernel a ton. I messed with some stuff. I couldn’t write a kernel myself, but I program better from doing it and I can troubleshoot things easier knowing the components and topology.

Off the top of my head, I can fumble around and make a crappy amplifier from parts in my closet, or write a crappy FAT-like file system. I’d probably struggle a bit with a nice new bike. I think gear shifters and stuff are a lot fancier than an old 10 speed.
Yes, this is a top priority for us, and we aim to pass the Jepsen test before the official GA release.
Show HN: Turn your dreams into reality with this life planner app
Hi, this is Ygee,
and I'd like to share the story of Y-Pod.

Most people believe their big dreams are impossible to achieve, so they settle for less—not because they can’t, but because they feel overwhelmed and disconnected from that distant future.

I felt the same way. It was a struggle juggling multiple apps like notes, to-dos, and calendars to plan my goals. I realized a dedicated app to organize my life goals would not only help me but also allow me to showcase my technical and creative skills.

That’s how Y-Pod was born — to bridge the gap between big lifelong dreams and small daily actions, empowering users to turn their dreams into reality. My hope is that it will help others live their dream lives and, in doing so, make the world a better place.
Great work on the article and video!

I've played with RD's especially Gray Scott a lot in Gollygang/Ready, and found some fascinating behaviours that I then brought into Houdini for visualisation, here's a couple of examples:

https://youtu.be/4dWJ504FULw?si=lWBrhaL2J12o58e1

https://youtu.be/Naj_J8aznyk?si=lb0WrkrUaCDg-Rzl

One thing that can help them to look nicer (in my opinion) is a reinterpretation of the reagent values as specific colours before display.. even something as simple as: pow(Uucolor,upow) + pow(Vvcolor,vpow) can be nice with well-picked ucolor&vcolor and powers. Other possibilities like hsv-to-rgb on the values can be pretty interesting too!
> If the colon character were the universal assignment character the language wouldn’t need == or === for comparison because = would be enough.

You would need to break a few basic JS premises too:

0 = false
0 != false
I haven't ruled out building AI-powered queries into the app, but I am firm about doing it in a way that respects data security (i.e. no shipping database schemas or data to ChatGPT without explicit user consent).

From my understanding, usable on-device LLM models tend to be gigabytes-large, which makes it difficult to roll out to everyone. Apple Intelligence might make this feasible, will need to do more research on this when I do the iOS port.

Making AI an optional add-on might be doable.

Thanks for the feedback!
I agree with the sentiment here, but financial transactions have to be recorded anyway as proof of who is supposed to have what. If people can be anonymous in these transactions, then they will be used for criminal activity. These scams and such are all money-driven crimes, so the 'follow-the-money' approach seems like it would be the most effective to find the criminals and also used as proof by prosecutors to the courts.
This is a classic lesson that everyone learns called Sync Is Not Backup. Everyone learns it eventually and then writes a blog post on it. It used to be a classic HN meme:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4704086

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27157427

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33008837

And every storage company tells a tale of backup vs sync:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/cloud-backup-vs-cloud-sync/
If the Xserve's legacy is anything to go by, neither are UNIX customers.
Established companies become management bloated and squeeze out technical talent who have the temerity to push-back, critique decisions. Management focuses on the quarterly results and stock prices. For that reason, they do everything to sustain their cash cow products.

Then some maverick startup comes along with some disruptive innovation. Give consumers something novel, cheaper, easier to use than the incumbents and you have a new growth market.
Let's set aside morality for a second. There is a reason low payouts are bad without even having to consider the black market: it pushes people to search for bugs in a competitor's app that pays more instead of in your app!

If your app is paying out $2K and a competing app pays out $100K, why would anyone bother searching for bugs in your app? Every minute spent researching your app pay 1/50th of what you'd get searching in the competing app (unless your app has 50x more bugs I suppose, but perhaps then you have bigger problems...).

I'm always so confused by the negative responses to people asking for higher bug bounties. It feels like it still comes from this weird entitlement that researchers owe you the bug report. Perhaps they do. But you know what they definitely don't owe you? Looking for new bugs! Ultimately this attitude always leads to the same place: the places that pay more protect their users better. It is thus completely reasonable to decide not to use a product as a user if the company that makes the product isn't paying high bug bounties. It's the same as discovering that a restaurant is cheeping out on health inspections and deciding to no longer eat there.
There was a recent David Attenborough narrated documentary about a huge cave system in I want to say Vietnam. In the behind the scenes making of short they said drones would not work underground due to some built in programmed restrictions. They had to contact the manufacturer to get the firmware changed to allow it.

Not mentioned here but I believe this is the correct series: https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/mediapacks/planet-earth-thre...
> EU regulators want to compromise vertical integration

No. Apple somehow convinced people that: "our products work great with each other" *must* somehow involve: "we won't let competing brands work well with our products". Slick marketing!

The EU's warning involves the iPhone's interoperability with other watches and headphones when it comes to "notifications, device pairing and connectivity" (quoting Euronews). For example, you can reply to texts from an Apple Watch, not a Garmin (it works fine on Android). That's an arbitrary software restriction.
I'll be consistently updating the app as we approach the 2025 Year Planning season.

I'd love for you to try it out and let me know what you think. Cheers!
The current release is a prebuilt binary, giving users flexibility in how they use the software. The open-source model is still being decided, but a license file is included in the downloaded tarball.
Ah damn was meant to be asterisks there (ie multiplication of ucolor by U etc) but it got turned into italics!
I do think that within the next 5-10 years most cars will be able to hands free highway as reliably as OP. However, cars keep getting more and more expensive. One can buy a 2015-2024 used car for much cheaper and get some very good highway cruising out of it. That's what I did and am very happy about it.
Ho bíos brakhús,
hē dè tékhnē makrḗ,
ho dè kairòs oxús --- O βίος βραχύς,
η δὲ τέχνη μακρή,
ὸ δὲ καιρὸς οξύς
It is a scraper, and you would need it because LinkedIn doesn't have any meaningful public API
One thing that I noticed from watching the first ~minute of the video: rather than simply pressing on the skin, it looks like the finger is mostly pulling the skin down over the edge. My intuition is that this is because there isn't all that much deformation from simply pressing, and so this pulling action triggers a stronger response. But I might be overinterpreting from a few seconds of video.
ah yes the watchdog alarm aka the nothing will be done but now we feel like someone other than us is working on it alarm (manufactured consent alarm?)
That is rich coming from a former NSA Tailored Access Operations agent. She had no problems paying companies to release insecure software, including some that have signed the "secure by design" pledge.
The Calculator that spawned the Microprocessor (2009)
Definitely, It's not a backup if it's not at least 3 backups in different places.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/
Ask HN: How to market a tool built for B2B?
It’s a simple tool targeted towards B2B. I am reaching out to directors and VPs of marketing but I see lackluster response.

How can I get these people’s attention and sell them the tool?

I would love to get ideas for selling to marketing folks.
Cupy was first but at this point you're better of using JAX.

Has a much larger community, a big push from Google Research, and unlike PFN's Chainer (of which CuPy is the computational base), is not semi-abandoned.

Kind of sad to see CuPy/Chainer eco-system die: not only did they pioneer the PyTorch programming model, but also stuck to Numpy API like JAX does (though the AD is layered on top in Chainer IIRC).
Great idea, you could do the same with a capacitive xy sensor.
My years of experience and observations confirm your hypothesis. Furthermore, managements don't take kindly to messengers (i.e. engineers) who deliver negative news, viewpoints. What I have seen is that over time, such companies leak competent staff at all levels. The Yes-persons outnumber those with critical thinking. The critical thinkers eventually give up and/or leave.
Thanks for taking the time, that makes sense. This is not the first time I've misunderstood something by having opinions about what it should be doing in my opinion, haha. I absolutely agree with your last point, too.
From someone who used to do a lot of this sort of thing around the time of this blog post (even in my fifties now,I still do):

I often thought I was taking photos of buildings and spaces that would soon not exist. In hindsight, I was correct. To have this blog documenting something from so long ago (relatively speaking) is a true gem.

Urbex, in general, is an absolutely harmless illegal pursuit,or hobby if you will. The people who go to the places few will ever see, are documenting spaces that will generally be soon lost to the world.

It's a really great thing IMHO.

Just my 2c.
That is important context, but I still agree with what she's said in this article. It's also rich that Cisco especially -- a company known for hard-coding backdoors into their products for decades -- is "taking a pledge" to do better.
Problem-solving matter: Is life a complex computational process?
Honest question: what else can they do but warn people?
These emails are automated, so they can send them to many users, and only need a few to come back to make it profitable to do so. Also, the team that is responsible for these emails and for retention (or winning back defectors) may be its own little island and not care about contradicting the forever-promises made elsewhere in the business.
Source for gpt4 requiring 8 gpus?
> Why would you spend hours slaving over a buggy wifi driver when you could try your hand at writing a mobile app instead, which might make you rich?

People do get paid to write Linux WiFi drivers. Especially for embedded devices. But honestly, some people just like that stuff. I’ve watched a twitch stream where a hobbyist reverse engineered the wireless protocol that the valve knuckles controller used.

He spent hours sifting through bits in wireshark.

Some people see a problem and bash their heads against it until it’s fixed. Torvalds is one of those people and I’m sure many open source contributors are too.

Kind of an aside, but what was really cool was that the creator of that protocol was in chat dropping hints.

IMO the big failing of the open source community is selling out too much and not attracting as many enthusiasts as career programmers (not that there isn’t overlap)

Alan Perlis has a quote that goes like “I hope we keep the fun in computing” and I think we failed at that.

My outlook isn’t as bleak. I think Linux is here to stay. I don’t really see a proprietary OS that is as robust and runs on as many different platforms taking Linux’s thunder.

Mobile and VR has android.

Even on desktop, the seam deck is pushing it forward, though it will forever probably remain niche on desktop.
https://github.com/feder-cr/linkedIn_auto_jobs_applier_with_...
Are you aware that all grocery stores are for-profit? Also all restaurants, all Apple stores, and all Steinway piano stores.
Wonderful look in to our history, and you're undoubtedly correct about being able to target that system.

My example was about hardware that was affordable to mere mortals (although it's getting to be more expensive to buy that same hardware now as it was to buy it when it was new), but the idea is the same :)
What I worry is the skill of drivers who think going 10mph faster than the flow of traffic is dangerous.

You pitch 10mph speed difference as if Louis Hamilton is out on the road flipping cars left and right.
Nintendo pivoted from cards to games but they likely weren’t huge before the pivot either.
If I had a dollar for every time I had to look up how to group events by day in a way that doesn't leave gaps...

This is a good idea, thanks for the feedback!
I agree. Though it's good to have options for GPU accelerated Numpy. Especially if Google decides to discontinue Jax at some point.
Well said. I agree completely.
"Genera's design philosophy holds that no action of the software should be hidden from the designer"

So refreshing and edgy even to this day.

Also says a lot about the "New Jersey" model that CS as a whole pivoted to (see UNIX haters handbook), where every damn thing is hard , opaque and/or hidden, either in propreitary blobs, or not much differently, in complex unreliable build systems, and binary blobs.

A bit sad that we're moving back out of this religious dogma of the 70s with half-baked lisps like Python etc.
I linked to the older Latacora one upthread and this comment is linking to the newer Latacora one. So I think it's reasonable to read "they" as "Latacora" here.
> you're insistent on calling them different entities so that you can win an internet argument

No, I'm insistent on calling them different entities because in actual practice they can be, and indeed usually are, different entities. De-duping is usually done in the operating system, and applications usually run in user space.
Thank you for the insightful reply. I agree, Redis's transaction API ("MULTI/EXEC/DISCARD/WATCH") is challenging compared to SQL's familiar "START/COMMIT/ROLLBACK," and it has key limitations:

1. No rollback on failure: If a command in EXEC fails, Redis can't roll back the transaction. EloqKV resolves this by starting real transactions on the TxServer node during EXEC. If any command fails, the changes are rolled back, maintaining atomicity. Additionally, EloqKV allows specifying isolation levels when using Redis transactions.

2. Lack of interactivity: This is where Lua shines. Users can embed business logic in Lua, functioning similarly to stored procedures in SQL.

3. No cross-shard transactions: Redis clusters can't redirect requests across shards, forcing clients to manage topology awareness. EloqKV addresses this with a fully distributed transactional design, eliminating these cross-shard complexities. For more on this, see our blog.

https://www.eloqdata.com/blog/2024/08/22/benchmark-cluster#w...

As for your point on Lua's risks in multi-tenant environments, I completely agree. Lua lacks robust ACLs or resource limitations, and managing SHA keys is cumbersome. We're considering enhancements to address these issues in the future.
Finally, we are indeed working on a "real" transaction API for Redis. Like SQL, users will be able to begin transactions, read keys, apply transformations, and generate new keys, with the ability to commit or abort. EloqKV will also support configurable isolation levels and transaction protocols (OCC/Locking).

Do you have any additional API preferences beyond "START/COMMIT/ROLLBACK" for Redis transactions?
I don't even have a cell phone! I have a Libreboot-ed X200 running a 100%-libre distribution of GNU/Linux. My MAC address is randomized every hour. I pulled the OnStar fuse from my car 10 years ago. I run my own email server, and use E2E encryption when my recipient knows how. I use Tor and VPNs. My home phone number is public and posted to my website, and I can't control who has it anyway.
Well, and that a sync can destroy existing files while a proper backup flow can't.

If you had 3 syncs in 3 different providers but deleting your local folder causes all 3 copies to be deleted, that's still no good. You need another place where files can only be added to and never (automatically) removed.
I've been looking into this space since I learned about Temporal recently, and I wonder if it would be better to have this integrated in my application, as a library, instead of an external dependency. This way, all the state would be in the same DB.
> An element of a distributed system that wants to debit from bank accounts must acknowledge the receipt of a message after making its effects durable.

I do not and never have disputed that. But I fail to see what that has to do with the matter at hand, namely, whether or not exactly-once delivery is possible.
I specifically made my comment about wind and solar. I am not a big fan of large scale hydro for just this reason, as well as the impact on aquatic ecosystems.
Companies will continue to take advantage of free and cheap labor just as long as those people continue to serve.

Perhaps after this generation of LBIP moves on, the next wave won’t be so generous.

Also, open source doesn’t have to mean free labor. One could be paid a wage to work on open source.
>"We don't have a cyber security problem – we have a software quality problem. We don't need more security products – we need more secure products."

Uhmmm. The foundation of a lot of the modern economy is built on Windows and the Crowdstrike fiasco has shown, Windows requires a security software to save it from itself by running at the kernel level. If we truly want secure products, we should shutdown all Windows machines?
There are two things wrong with this: first, in the U.S., you do have certain rights to privacy in public. Whether this is a case of those rights being violated is a different question. In any case, I don't like the creeping redefinition of civil rights I infer from that statement, intentional or not. Second, just as civil rights can be eroded, they can also be expanded, and the idea that we should just throw up our hands is not helpful in a free society that depends on people giving a shit.
I don't live my life entirely on the command line either, but GUIs for Docker are just an interesting niche to me, for which I just don't understand what the ven diagram is between people that want Docker containers running locally, know that that's what they want, and know how it all works, but then don't want to do the small handful of commands at the prompt needed to get it running...
>"It reminds me of when I was young and people were arguing about vi versus Emacs," said the software engineer. Hohndel interjected, "They still are!"

vi was a joke. vim/emacs is worth debating. I mention this because the quote is talking about the old days, as if the same debate is continues.

emacs/emacs is also worth debating, because for all its power, emacs usage does not live up to emacs potential.

my problem with the Rust/C debate is that the Rust crowd hates C. I think Rust would be a better language if the community loved C.
When cold calling, 3% - 4% conversion rates are considered good.

You chose to enter a crowded market. It is always difficult to compete with more established, better known vendors. You really need to differentiate substantially in order to make your product more appealing than your competitors.

LinkedIn has become yet another spam infested quasi-social network.

Perhaps you should look at who your current clients are. Create profile(s) of them and then actively target using phone calls, direct mail, in-person calls. Those might be old school but since nobody uses them these days, you can stand-out by being different. But remember, you still need to quickly demonstrate the value of your product -- increased revenue, profit, productivity or a significant reduction in costs, time to market, etc.
https://archive.ph/u5GUX
The entire catelogue is actually available for free on their website: https://publications.americanalpineclub.org/
JAX still has the

"This is a research project, not an official Google product. Expect bugs and sharp edges. Please help by trying it out, reporting bugs, and letting us know what you think!"

disclaimer in its readme. This is quite scary, especially coming from Google which is known to abandon projects out of the blue
Breakthrough technology, indeed.
T-Minus: 10 space stations of the future
I’d basically quote your whole post. You said that NSA contradicted a widely accepted story. Where did that story come from?
Peertube has supported audio-only streams since I submitted a PR for this in 2019:

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/pull/2213

I made this not so much to listen to music but to listen to recorded lectures while on the move - and thus on 3/4G - so as to avoid wasting data.
The Work from Home Free-for-All Is Coming to an End
Companies that offer things for free, I fully expect for them to keep them free forever. If the pay solution is worth it I'll pay.

When they start changing the contract, I find an alternative and use the service as much as I can. My Dropbox is fully backed up but has been full for years and it doesn't matter to me any more.
Thanks for this information! Makes sense now.
There's probably a legal distinction, but personally I really don't want, say, my grocery store tracking how long I spent in which aisles to add to my advertising profile.

(Yes, I use rewards cards, but I have the option to not enter my phone number and pay cash if I want to exclude a particular purchase from that dataset.)
What kind of Tom Clancy novel do you live in that intelligence agencies are astroturfing for free chess sites?
I actually haven't noticed but they stopped bothering me about a year ago.

There used to be endless "Dropbox has stopped syncing" emails - brought on due to shared photos from a friend's account taking me over the free limit, even though the actual files i have are under the limit. They sent a massive number of email variants since this first triggered back in 2016, so that's roughly 7+ years before they got the message that I wasn't going to fall for it!
Americans Are Falling Behind on Their Bills