skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember there was a time when “web services” were the new hotness and everybody was gonna offer some API to whatever they had online.

What happened to this? We’ve even got the authentication part nailed down now thanks to OAuth! There is even API gateways that you can park in front of your stack that manage all the hard parts like granting client secrets to API consumers and showing registration screens to developers.

There is really nothing stopping you from opening up parts of your stack to developers and tinkerers so they can do cool shit. It even gets people to lock into your product that much more because now they’ve integrated some part of their workflow into your system in a way that might not be possible without your service!

So yeah. You already have these API’s exposed for your front end apps to use. Why not just slam a developer portal on top and let people access some of it? Who knows what cool things they’ll cook up!
Seems really good for IoT no? Been a while since I worked in that space, but having something like this would have been nice at the time.
there are already airlines that offer outside-camera video streaming
S2 is, in my opinion, the sweet spot of PRS's lineup.
Show HN: TapLock – double tap to lock your Android device
When I switched from a Samsung to a Pixel, I was shocked to discover that the 'double-tap to lock' feature (where you double-tap an empty area of the home screen to lock your device) wasn't a native option.

This feature existed as far back as 2014 on my LG G3, so why is it missing on the Pixel?

While there are alternatives on the Play Store, most are either closed-source or bundled into custom launchers — neither of which I wanted. Sending the lock-screen signal requires the Accessibility Service, and I wasn’t comfortable granting that level of access to a closed-source third-party app.

So, I decided to create my own solution. My app is completely open-source, contains no tracking or analytics libraries, and doesn’t make any external requests. The Accessibility Service permission is used solely to send the lock-screen command. I tried to find an alternative to locking the screen without requiring Accessibility permissions but the options either required root or weren't what I needed.

I also saw this as a chance to explore modern Android development. The last time I built an app from scratch, Jetpack Compose didn’t even exist. While I didn’t hate the experience, I won’t say I miss the days of wrestling with XML either. That said, some aspects of Compose felt harder to fully grasp and work with.

You can download it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ah.taplock

Source code is here: https://github.com/modelorona/TapLock

Any suggestions or feedback, please feel free to leave here or on the repo.
I like the minimalist design. I built a similar daily feed for myself, using GitHub Actions to trigger a daily sync, FeedLand.com for managing subscriptions, and GitHub Pages for publishing. Artemis is much more user friendly.

https://github.com/robalexdev/feeds

https://alexsci.com/feeds/
Anyone else using "aichat" (linked below) for this? I'm curious because this one feels nice and light and simple for this sort of thing, but can't tell if there may be something better out there?

https://github.com/sigoden/aichat
'We Can Bury Anyone': Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine
Gotcha. I didn't realize this was open-source. In that case, cool. I'm all for it.
These days whenever I read an interesting article, I will take 2 minutes to copy and paste it into my Obsidian vault under my Articles folder. I'll take care to paste the images as images (and not links) and make sure I've got the author and source URL at the top, and have my separate notes section link to it. It's a bit silly and obsessive, but given how transient content on the Internet is, I think it's necessary to make a copy of anything you care about.
5 years ago I was working on a semi-novel crowdfunding platform that relied on video presentations. First iteration we used the YouTube API because hosting our own video seemed daunting and that worked fine for a bit. Over time we started to run into limits/errors/interruptions/audits at inconvenient times until one weekend I was like “screw it, let’s find out what the problems of self transcoding and hosting are.” Spent some time learning to use ffmpeg and throwing the results on our static resource pile. Tagging was a fairly straightforward lift. Honestly worked better than I’d have anticipated and was much less hassle. I’m sure we would have hit the problems if we’d reached a critical scaling point buuut that didn’t happen inside our year or so of having clients.
Just you wait, I am launching S1 next year!
Disagree. You have a marketing opportunity for a hipster character named "Stu" to be the spokesman.
Always good to wrap up those loose ends.
California population jumps to near pre-pandemic levels
A large-scale deployment of DCTCP
"at a fraction of the cost of a data engineering hire." for now, no one is paying the actual cost of AI. Human workers will be cheaper until we get to angstrom level chip[ designs
This is moderately weird. As I understand it, some of the attraction of BTC is the hard limit on it. Which makes it deflationary, but that's a different topic. Why would BlackRock say something contrary to what everyone else has been pushing?
> So about 2/3 of the latency is caused by relays and switching equipment.

Not really; the speed of light in fiber optic cable is only about two-thirds of that in a vacuum. That means it takes light about ~60ms to travel the 12,000km great arc distance.
If you go back in time, there were editors that by default would save the previous version of a file to .bak, each time you saved the current status. The fear of accidental saving or editing and hence overwriting old good stuff was higher than accidentally loosing new good stuff. There was less protection of system files, config files etc, so chances were you would brick apps or even the OS. Things got more forgiving since.
The speed of light is the speed of causality, so obviously it can't be too fast or everything will be in instantaneous causal contact. It's not strange that biological creatures find that things over distances that "feel" distant actually take light some perceptible "time" to reach.
ICQ was a way of texting friends so that you could go party. At least for me, and I'm a nerd. I remember even "normal" friends were using IRC as a way to hookup. Cell phones were not very common.

Looking at my non-nerd 17 year old, they meet maybe once a month, and it's to cook food together during the day. Nobody drinks. They just see it as a waste of money. Maybe not the most normal sample. They love biking and also go to circus school together (Montreal).
(Founder) Appreciate the feedback. We will try to do a better job on the messaging. It is geared at being a building block for data systems. The landing page has a section talking about some of the patterns it enables (Decouple / Buffer / Journal) in a serverless manner, with example use cases. It just may not be something that resonates with you though! We are interested in adoption by developers for now.
Replying to this one since you apparently can't reply to a comment that has been flagged. Why was the grandparent flagged? Google's S2 library has been around for more than a decade and is the first thing I think of when I see "S2" in a tech stack.

And the flippant response from the parent here that they don't really care that they're muddying the waters and just want the crate name is irksome.
This looks so cool, can't wait to try it out.
This is a very interesting abstraction (and service). I can’t help but feature creep and ask for something like Athena, which runs PrestoDB (map reduce) over S3 files. It could be superior in theory because anyone using that pattern must shoehorn their data stream (almost everything is really a stream) into an S3 file system. Fragmentation and file packing become requirements that degrade transactional qualities.
Nope. AlphaZero taught itself to play games like chess, shogi, and Go through self-play, starting from random moves. It was not given any strategies or human gameplay data but was provided with the basic rules of each game to guide its learning process.
thats a great point, I failed to consider c in the propagation medium. however, OP didn't specify that either, he just insinuated that we can perceive propagation delays by c. we are both wrong (in his specific case about telecom delays, we have absolutely contrived experiments to detect it)
Why would "resources" become less limited or necessary just because there's some AGI controlled by a few people? You're assuming a lot here.

The Luddites asked a similar question. The ultimate answer is that it doesn't matter that much who controls the means of production, as long as we have access to its fruits.

As long as manual labor is in the loop, the limits to productivity are fixed. Machines scale, humans don't. It doesn't matter whether you're talking about a cotton gin or a warehouse full of GPUs.

Separately, is it "rising tide lifts all boats" or "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" that drives the common person's progress? You seem confused which metaphor to apply while handwaving the discussion away.

I haven't invoked the "bootstrap" cliché here, have I? Just the boat thing. They make very different points.

Anyway, never mind the bootstraps: where'd you get the boots? Is there a shortage of boots?

There once was a shortage of boots, it's safe to say, but automation fixed that. Humans didn't, and couldn't, but machines did. Or more properly, humans building and using machines did.
DISMTools: The connected place for Windows system administration
Why So Many Young People Are Cutting Off Their Parents
Absolutely, Americans love saying “we’ll just send the cops after them.” Because then they don’t have to do any of the hard work of understanding or funding the programs. Americans are lazy when it comes to solving actual hard problems.
Out-of-office emails are getting a refresh – employees set work-life boundaries
This reminds me of a recent flea market experience. There at some stand was boxes of old used post cards and 100 year old family photos. Photos of people posed on a porch in their Sunday best. Or just mundanely standing around a car not everyone looking at the camera.

It's hard to assign a value to these things. They are simultaneously junk and treasure. I think about the journey these items took to find their way to that flea market table. It was too diverse a collection to have come from one place. So I imagine all the paths each individual item traversed. The joy of the recipient reading a post card, holding on to it, rediscovering it on spring cleaning days. Or the photo living in an album or framed on a wall somewhere for a lifetime.

I'm not sure what the value of it all is if it just gets lugged around to various flea markets and sold piecemeal for $1 each.
Unfortunally they didn't exist when we started with kannel
Interesting that, Chris Jordan was part of Acornsoft when the original game was being developed and is also well known for his Hybrid Music System for the BBC Micro, way ahead of its time.
How does this work, legally? If the US courts just blow off precedent to favor big corporations and rich people every time, they lose credibility, and secondarily create a logical mess for those trying to stay legal
Just FYI, that doesn't give me confidence in the longevity of your service.
Agreed. I think you could automate some of that too, could save time if you do it often.
Why play kids and the elderly off against the other? How is there even a dichotomy here?
The communication aspect has just moved to other places.
Predictions for the Tech Job Market in 2025
Including potentially in court / to lawyers? IANAL, but isn't this just inviting Amazon to claim it's deliberately leveraging their 'S3' trademark and sowing confusion in order to lift their own brand? (Correctly, and even somewhat transparently in TFA, IMO.)
Between your site copy and your early comments on this thread, it was this rundown that made the product click in my mind.

I’m sure that in this early preview you’re trying to reach mainly devs with existing domain expertise, but the way that, in this comment, you laid out existing constraints and what possibilities might lie beyond them—it really helped me situate your S2 product in the constellation of cloud primitives.

Just wanted to offer that feedback in the hope that the spirit of your comment here doesn’t get buried down-thread!
Redpanda cloud doesn’t limit tput. Most ppl get a bigger discount at high volumes. We have customers in 10s of GB/s. Confluent has those volumes too.
(Founder) That somewhat summarizes yes :) We take a different approach than WarpStream architecturally too, which allows us to offer much lower latencies. No disks in our system, either.
There also seems to be a lot of cheating and/or metric abuse in academia, so it is hard not to over-emphasize this one signal, if it is all you are going to get anyway.
Your link doesn't have any probability analysis either. Just supposition that the raw data isn't valid because it looks similar to a 2 year run the Hornets had.

Is it wildly inconceivable that the refs propped up the Hornets for a couple of years? No. Does the only quantitative evidence presented in this thread suggest the refs are propping up a below average Lakers team? Yeah.
How Georgia Tech Is Putting Job Placements over Exclusivity
Don't forget prepaid Visa/MasterCard too. (Maybe grandma still sends a $20 every birthday.)
Totally agree. PySpark, dplyr, or polars any day
When Poland first introduced the capital gains tax in 2002, banks were quick to notice the tax law still generally required tax amounts to be rounded to nearest full złoty when accrued, so they started offering financial products with daily capitalization, which were effectively exempt from the new capital gains tax, as for most customers, the daily gain would be low enough that the tax on it always rounded down to zero. This only got corrected 10 years later.

I find it fascinating that we could have a whole class of financial products hinging on something seemingly so trivial as a rounding strategy.
I actually have Firewalla (it's great!). But it's only helpful when a kid's phone is connected to the network itself (which they can escape easily by disconnecting from wifi). The native stuff works on all networks.
> The library seems to use BibLatex, which is pretty standard. No reference managers I know understands the above HTML.

It should be easy to write some once-and-for-all XSLT (or other processor, that's just what I'm used to for XML, but I don't know what's easy to call from JS) to transform well-formed HTML as above to a format that BibLaTeX understands. Since it'd be a one-size-fits-all transformer, anyone who wants to write the HTML can do so.
The NBA’s problem is the 3-pointer. Teams shoot more threes than they ever have before [1] because it’s a winning strategy (more points per attempt). At the same time, the league-wide 3pt% (percentage of 3-pointers made) has remained extremely stable around 35-36% [2] for the past few decades. This means the league as a whole has not found a way to consistently defend against the three.

So why is this bad? It’s really boring basketball! Watching teams shoot and miss a bit less than 2/3 of their shots with very little the other team’s defence can do about it is not fun to watch!

All of the athleticism and skill of the most famous stars in the NBA’s past has focused on basketball skills: dribbling, crossovers, driving the ball to the basket, making layups and dunks, changing hands mid shot to avoid a block, making turn around jumpers and hook shots, floaters. The one exception to that is Steph Curry who is best known as a shooter but who is frankly a pretty boring player to watch.

[1] https://shottracker.com/articles/the-3-point-revolution

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9915101/
This is an interesting paper, but I’m surprised by the number of typos I found on first reading. It brings the seriousness of the paper into question.
Same on Chrome and Safari on mac
The person you're responding to has a history of not responding thoroughly and specifically to the claims made by others in a conversation. Alternatively, they're often flat-out wrong.
I don't not care about music, but I don't want to put in effort. I can live my life without music, but I prefer having good music in my life.

Spotify suits my needs perfectly. Even if they do this fake music, it still works well enough. I doubt my half apathy is uncommon. The assumption of prevalence of this attitude is why this change by spotify is so damaging. It will harm my experience a little, and harms artists quite a bit.
If you ever figure it out, LMK. I don't think I've ever looked at logs more than about 24 hours old. Persistence and durability is not something I care about.

Errors, OTOH, I need a week or two of. But I consider these 2 different things. Logs are kind of a last resort when you really can't figure out what's going on in prod.
@agallego Yes in aggregate both Confluent and Redpanda can push GiBps throughputs, and I know Redpanda has amazing perf. I was referring to Redpanda Serverless :) And per-partition i.e. ordered throughput.

ED: for some reason I wasn't seeing the reply link before on your comment, do see it now.
>no reason to assume that a behavior that activates the reward system is categorically less harmful than a molecule that activates it directly.

There are mountains of papers, books and all sorts of evidence that drugs that directly act as agonists for populations of dopaminergic neurons the VTA that mediate incentive salience (methamphetamine, cocaine, etc) are incredibly addictive (wanting, not liking, not reward. reward prediction). This is very different than an experience that is naturally rewarding like sex (liking, and maybe wanting later remembering the liking). Anticipation of sex may activate VTA dopaminergic populations but the reward of sexual activity itself does not. And certainly not things like viewing audio-visual media on screens.

I use medical to emphasize that when you try to reason about these things without fine grained understanding you come to false general conclusions.

I do agree that with drugs that just activate reward directly (like opioids with glutamergic populations in the shell of the nucleus accumbens) can rapidly become addictive. But these too are different than expriences that happen to activate reward through sensation. For example, sexual activity is a behavior that activates reward yet very few people become addicted to it.
Also crashes with a Javascript alert on Firefox 133.0.3 on macOS Sequoia 15.2
This is a very useful service model, but I'm confused about the value proposition given how every write is persisted to S3 before being acknowledged.

I suppose the writers could batch a group of records before writing them out as a larger blob, with background processes performing compaction, but it's still an object-backed streaming service, right?

AWS has shown their willingness to implement mostly-protocol compatible services (RDS -> Aurora), and I could see them doing the same with a Kafka reimplementation.
> Techopedia started life as a solid tech site. Now, it’s a front for gambling and crypto. When it was penalized, it experienced a massive crash in traffic and rankings.

Google actually did something to improve search!
She got 20 months for blocking the motorway! https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgxqwwev50ko
Seems excessive.
Sounds about same what I was going to write.

Most likely it is not worth it. But people should not be doing only things that are “worth doing”. Then again if something brought you joy but was complete waste of time - it was worth it.

Hate dementors who tell you otherwise, it is limited life time but it is yours. You should be helpful to others but doing only “what is worth” suck the beauty out of existence.
Thank you so much!

This project actually started off as a GitHub Action to trigger a daily sync, with a Python script that polled pages and saved the results. A static site generator then built the site using the data from the polling process.

I love the design of your page!
Words do not have magic attached to them. They do not inherit sins. 'Solution' and 'final' have definitions, use those... don't gasp in shock and insist on synonyms when someone happens to use a combination of words happened to be used somewhere else and some other time by an evil man.
Pride Versioning
Stuck in a join lobby error loop, but can't wait to try it out!

One thing i will say, I LOVE the color picker options. I cannot stand games who nickel and dime for basic ass colors and you have an entire color wheel for free so kudos!
Simple and Free IP Geolocation API
Get locked out of your account? Hope you had a backup. I lost access to an account can’t get back in.

Can’t get into your mail cuz of internet issues. Hope you had a backup

Too much space used? Make a backup, cleanup and continue

Thunderbird and Mail service exports for me.
thank you for the feedback!
But instead are distracted by modern algorithms built for a slow drip of dopamine!
Fine, I'll Talk About The Drones [video]
I didn't directly interpret it a cross-platform but more as (x) platform... Asin variable x which is not Apple... Which is semantically the same I guess but not entirely.

Just to add to the different ways that that exact grouping of letters can be interpreted.

Maybe because I see an API as being able to be accessed from anywhere, so you could query it from a home automation device to trigger something when you are withing X meters of your house, which even if Apple truly released a cross-platform version of Find My that wouldn't be possible.
many thanks! "Observational Equality: Now for Good" led me to "Observational Equality, Now!" which is a little easier for the layman to read without developing a headache: "Observational Equality: Ow!"
In my day browsers could save an archive of a page

Is this still the case?
That was still nerd behavior depending on the group you were in. A lot of folks knew AIM, but ICQ was different.
If I don’t eat breakfast I won’t snack or be hungry until 5pm so the slogan isn’t a oversimplification, it’s marketing
i have taiwan friends who also disregard their safety using their phones like everybody else...they might seem dimwitted too for that but i can assure you their no china spies
Lowlight Cameras Can't Beat Stealth [video]
What's the single, unambiguous definition of the word "cleave"?
It’s explained pretty well in link provided in comment your replying to.

The tl;dr is: The information is publicly available in an encrypted form that is only readable by the party with the key.

Think of it like this, when you mark an item as lost you publish a hashed public identification key, if another device detects that key it creates a location report encrypted with your public key and posts it to a public list of encrypted reports, you decrypt the report with your private key.
You're 50% of the way closer to 1st!