skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What started was the rebranding from distributed systems.

Not really. Microservices normally refers to humans and how they work together, or, perhaps, don't work together. Microservices is the same service model found in the macro economy but applied to the micro economy of a single business, which was a novel idea at least to the general public, hence the name.

Due to Conway's law, the product ends up being a distributed system more often than not, but that is only a side effect. Theoretically you could have microservices without distributed systems, and we do see some instances of services found in the macro economy that are not offered as a distributed computing products, not to mention that services even predate the network. But distributed is definitely the way most things are going.
One of CL-415 Super Scooper Planes Taken Out of Palisades Fire Fight by Drone
The point is at most as strong as the share of innovative medicines in health care. Which doesn't seem all that big to me as layman.

My home country (where I don't live now, due to marriage) reformed its health care system to close around half the hospital beds and boost prevention starting around 1995. Encouraging biking to work, encouraging playing sports once a week with your teammates, less pollution, the list is long. The country has better health now than before the reform, and better than the US too. It's difficult for me to believe that new medicines play a large role in improving health overall. A nonzero benefit, sure, that's easy to believe. But the premise of that article is that new medicines play a large role, perhaps even the largest role, and I find that difficult to believe.
"we're just 10 years away from fusion bro"
I don't find debugging in docker containers difficult, but maybe that's only because I've been doing selfhosted stuff in docker for a few years. Usually exec'ing into a bash she'll inside the container satisfies my need to easily run commands inside the container.

What about debugging is difficult for you when docker containers are involved?
And SQL null shares the feature with many other languages that any type can be a NULL (although a column can be set NOT NULL). Much like Java, it is no end of grief that a type that claims to be, say, a “NUMBER” is actually “NUMBER | NULLType”.
Async generators are a feature built into the language because generators and async/await solve orthogonal problems.

That said, I also honestly don't know what specifically we're talking about here—I've used Koa on a few small projects and never used a generator for it. I landed on it because it has first-class support for async. Maybe there are generators used under the hood?

I didn't bother questioning the generators in the first post not because I knew what they were referring to but because the main thrust to my question remains either way: what's the new technical foundation that Koa is supposedly lacking, and why must every JS framework use the latest hotness?

Koa supports async and otherwise feels very much like express. That has been plenty good for me.

Edit: Google turns up no references to generators whatsoever on the koajs.com pages, so I'm not at all sure what OP was talking about. But again—I'm less concerned about whether they got the details of the implementation correct than I am about the idea that JS frameworks need to be swapped out constantly to stay relevant.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Akoajs.com+generators
A daily quiz for startup founders
When I was a kid, I read about Jack Welch and thought he was great. Later I learned of all the shenanigans he pulled, not just unethical, but illegal stuff. And the way he trampled people. Bill Gates is a respected philanthropist today, he too did all kinds of shady, ruthless stuff to get to the top. Everywhere I look, same story - Amazon, Facebook, Google... The only big company I think is okay is Costco - either they really are good or I haven't yet about their practices.

There is this podcast called Behind the bastards - in one way, it is eye opening. But it is also depressing, it does a pretty good job of shattering all our beliefs and respect for the rich and the successful.

Is it even possible today to become super successful without doing shady/unethical/illegal stuff? Everything from garden variety wage theft all the way upto buying politicians and corporate espionage?
If only it were that. Evidence just came out that he's not actually playing the game himself for the majority of the time.
eVTOLs are going to be much more expensive to build than helicopters because they have far more stringent weight/strength requirements due to low battery energy density (relative to aviation fuel).

The idea is to have far cheaper operating costs. Electric motors are far more efficient than ICE, so you should have much cheaper energy costs. Electric motors are also simpler than ICE so you should have cheaper maintenance with less required downtime compared to helicopters.

Of course, most of this is still being tested and worked on. But we are getting closer to having these get certified (FAA just released the SFAR for eVTOL, the first one since the 1940s).
Unfortunately, NextCloud for Androidadoes not support syncing directories other than a few hardcoded ones.
Agreed. If anything, excessive ads are an indication of a product whose design or implementation was neglected because it's easier to paper over the deficit with ads.
I use DuckDuckGo or pretty much anything else that feels suitable at the time, but I never think about searching this hard. It sounds like using Kagi inserts a conscious awareness of the product you're using. You're not just in the middle of an activity (whatever you're searching for), you're consciously Doing A Search.

Switching to unlimited searches sounds convenient if you can handle the price, but then a sort of Amazon Prime conundrum emerges: since you're paying for one option, why would you want to go anywhere else?

Maybe that's why I see so much enthusiasm for Kagi: when people use it, it's conscious.
Mostly yes, but there is a detail to know.

RTB bidders are actually throtled based on the amount of traffic they purchase.

For example, if you win on average 100% of the time, you will get to see 100% of the traffic (for example, third-parties can see 100% of YouTube views, know which IP block has seen what videos, etc).

However, if you win on average 1% of the time, you may get only 1% of the requests.

Usually it's proportional to the amount you buy, to prevent such passive data collection.
You also have to use wmain instead of main, with a wchar_t argv, otherwise the compiled-in argparser will be calling the ANSI version. In other words... Anyone using MSVC and the cross-platform standardised and normal C system, are hit by this.

Oh, and wmain is a VisualC thing. It isn't found on other platforms. Not standardised.
I have the feeling that Trump will try to squeeze as much as he can from every international partner legitimately or not, counting on the idea of Musk meddling in their respective national politics (See supporting Meloni in Italy, helping the AFD in Germany and trying to oust Keir Starmer in UK) will weaken their chance to rebut his requests.

If Musk fails at sending EU in chaos, this will backfire massively.
But isn't Lua very significantly simpler than Python? No MRO lookups, no descriptors, no __getitem__ and the like, no other operator overloading. It looks like turning Lua code into efficient native code should be a lot more doable, in more cases.
Scientists drill 2 miles down pull 1.2M-year-old ice core from Antarctic
> I don't think 5k@120fps would even be difficult for manufacturers.

I didn't say it's difficult technically, I said it's about whether they think there is a market for this product.
KeePassXC and BitWarden win the award for the only open platforms, then.

(And BitWarden isn’t even “free software”!)
Cool work!

I've been working on a similar product. Users can select between Streamlit/Shiny: https://editor.ploomber.io/ - so not necessarily for BI (although you can use it for that), but more broadly focused on data apps.
Canadian Sentenced for Exporting Electronics Used by Russia in Missiles, Drones
Technically, his axiom is the definition for what the operator is. Any set together with an operator "•" that satisfies this law is a boolean algebra. Binary logic where •=NAND is one such example because it satisfies the axiom.
That’s fair, I misunderstood GP’s post thinking you were making that recommendation to total noobs. Modular definitely has enough rope to hang yourself.

If someone is going to buy a hardware synth to learn on, I think a well laid-out semi-modular that has a good default signal path is a good way to go. Just ignore those funny 3.5” jacks until you’re ready.
US economy smashes expectations with 256,000 jobs created in December
An interesting question is how authors of these books look for stories to turn into book. Stories traditionally have a standard arc where the hero faces a challenge but wins in the end having learned something. I'd be curious to talk to authors about how much the desire to fit this template influences the selection of what they write about.
If the private key is actually stored in an unbeatable enclave, then fine. Apple’s implementation puts them in your iCloud account, which whilst it is overall locked via the Secure Enclave, the passkeys are most certainly not.

I don’t have a need for a level of security where exporting my private key to, say, Best Buy is impossible.
Securely Disposing of Smart Devices
I think its a law in almost all nations in fact that forces publishers to sent a copy of everything they publish to a national archive like that (the US equivalent is the Library of Congress). If you bring up the topic of preservation, most people won't understand why, or even be opposed to the idea, goes to show that sometimes its a good idea to ignore the ignorant public.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_deposit
Just a few first instalments used generators, yes, but all the subsequent releases do not, ever since await was introduced in JS.

Koa is awesome.
Look at fancy pants input button over here.

I have a ~2022 Samsung OLED, and it doesn't have an input button that I can find. I have to go into the home ribbon menu to find the inputs.
Sorry, I misunderstood your question.
That frequency band might not be very available for this service if NextNav gets their way. They are petitioning to get priority in the currently unlicensed 902-928MHz band.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/nextnavs-callous-band-...
Save Edits to OpenAPI as an Overlay
Didn't Trump want the ban? It was part of the Republican platform, and passed by Republican Congress.

Why the change of heart?
A Forgotten Receipt Can Lead to a Clever Scam
sounds cynical but I'm shifted to believing not. If you don't do it there will always be someone else who will. Not to say you should, that's a personal choice of course, but in a competitive environment there will always be someone or lots of someones who will do anything.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned what is in my mind the cardinal sin of checkout: the parameter can be either a path or a ref and it automatically infers which one you mean. That's magic and relies on your ref namespace and your file namespace not conflicting (of course you can be explicit but no one is)

I think if the "only operate on certain files" mode of checkout was a flag, it would be much less confusing and easier to explain and we never would have gotten into this mess to begin with.
If you have a compatible Apple device, generate a few dozen images with Image Playground. The device heats up a lot. It's assuredly on-device.
I’m a fan of Helm but it’s got some complexity under the hood.

If you’re an iOS user there are a ton of good soft synths on iOS that are criminally cheap. E.g. Moog has a version of the Mini that’s like $15.
A YubiKey is a tiny computer that runs Linux and a built in app… much like most HSMs.
Can you share more about your OpenObserve setup?

I’d love to know:

1) How it compares to Sentry in terms of insights you get
2) How you set it up as an accessory

I’ve used various (hosted) APM services for my Rails apps but they all are stupendously expensive so your approach sounds intriguing.
Refurbished Wacom One 13 (Gen 1)

It allows me to use my MacBook in the same way that I use my other devices --- with a stylus, so writing/annotation/drawing are perfectly natural, and it's also easy to move from device-to-device:

- Samsung Galaxy Note 10+

- Kindle Scribe

- Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360

Looking at upgrading to either the new Touch edition or a Wacom Movink 13 (I just wish the latter was high-resolution, or the Cintiq's didn't use a different stylus technology).
It depends how much people care even outside of state level actors, how much of a celebrity you are IRL, and how much care you've put into covering your tracks including just not telling people.

These days you can probably do some writing pattern matching if you suspect the true name of an author but you can probably stay pretty pseudonymous unless people really want to determine a true identity. I don't have a lot of doubt I could probably publish a pseudonymous blog if I took some reasonable precautions and didn't write stuff that especially provided a fingerprint pointing to my IRL identity.
Some of them are scams, yes. For stuff like Waymo, it definitely doesn’t match the hype at the time he made the original predictions. As pointed out above, there were people in 2016 claiming we’d be buying cars without steering wheels that could go between any two points connected by roads by now.
Another link with more information about Arpanet (1973)

https://www.norsar.no/about-us/history/arpanet
Childhood maltreatment alters sperm, future generations' brain development
Making Beautiful API Keys
I was impressed at the accuracy they were able to get with browser/architecture detection:

> Concretely, our expression reveals differences in 1116 OS-browser combination pairs (94.9 %).

Very cool to see that they've even gone as far as inferring elements like the likelihood of MS Office being installed on your computer by checking the width of a container with the font 'Leelawadee' specified:

> As this font is a non-free Microsoft font for the Thai Language, we do not expect users without Microsoft Office to have it installed

There is lots of really interesting information in here past what you might figure out yourself if you've played around with abusing CSS yourself before. So many things that had just never, and probably would never have, occurred to me to try.

It is definitely worth a read (or skim) over the paper to see the lengths they went to in order to figure out some of the unique elements to fingerprint on.
Having switched phones a couple of months ago, there didn't seem to be a good option. Either you need to have root - which means that most banking apps won't work anymore -, you need to backup to the cloud which a) not every app supports and b) I don't want to do for more private data, or you need to use the backup API that however some apps also don't support.

It's a mess and I don't understand that Google hasn't fixed that.
Don't wanna argue too deeply into philosophy. But I definitely think there is a certain moral code embedded in you by your early childhood. That moral compass on how you navigate life.

It's "deep down" but not some unchanging, inherent aspect of "you". You just need more work to tackle it, and probably with help, not alone.

But yes, "good" it "bad" absolutely doesn't work when evaluating a single individual life.
No one is making predictions or selling stock in the amount of “fully human controlled” vehicles.
Kate is a citizen. She is 60 years old and the family lives away. She gets visited daily by a care worker. Kate downloads the app and enters her data. Kate shares her data with the care worker so it can be managed for things like appointments and medication. The manager of the care worker sees the app, checks that the site has no policy whatsoever. Shares the name of the app with the law department. Law department contacts the local health authority regarding the app legality. The local health authority begins proceedings against the developer. Developer loses money
The Tedious Heroism of David Ruggles
They have more money. Doesn’t mean they want to spend it on uninsurable houses - or at least, not unless the price of the house drops enough to make it worth their while.
I am. The fact that you had to look is the point.
Relativistic mass increases are an observed effect. So if you're on the relativistic starship (as these are usually called) your mass does not change as your relative velocity does.

But for an at rest observer, your ship's mass would approach infinity as its speed approaches the speed of light. This is the reason the ship would never be observed as hitting the speed of light.

In practical terms this is also why particle accelerators can't just infinitely accelerate the particles - their apparent mass exponentially increases and so too does the amount of energy required to continue to accelerate them.
Because it's highly repetitive and uninteresting, especially in the context of an article that is not about Wolfram. The mod exhortations are a consequence of the repetitiveness rather than some special carveout. Other things that get that repetitive get similar appeals.
You might be interested in this: https://lpil.uk/blog/how-to-add-metaprogramming-to-gleam/
He’s saying AI can’t do the work of humans, not that dumb executives won’t pretend it can.
PowerSchool Reportedly Pays Ransom to Prevent Student Data Leak
It doesn't treat them as equal, it treats them as one group. It does this because the result is more useful.

It is not the case that nulls are always the same as one another. It is also not the case that nulls are always distinct from each other. Thus, the normal rule of grouping, that same values are combined and distinct values make different groups, does not apply. Another principle is needed to determine the result of grouping with nulls.

Logic which allows for an unknown value can't be shoehorned into always giving definite true or false answers.
Silicon Valley's largest startups to shun IPOs in 2025
It just means the value of the house without the land has to be captured in the down payment so the bank can't take a loss on it.
Seems par for the course nowadays
This is an affront against god. Good work.
> Job growth came from the familiar sources of health care (up 46,000), leisure and hospitality (43,000) and government (33,000).

> Retail also saw a sizeable gain, up 43,000 after losing 29,000 in November heading into the holiday shopping season. The sector saw payroll growth of 2.2
million for the full year, down nearly one-third from the 3 million gain in 2023.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/10/jobs-report-december-2024.ht...
second this: i was trying to follow along with the 99 percent invisible book club but i fell behind due to life events. i picked it back up during the holidays with about 25% left to go.

Caro does an amazing job writing in an engaging, compelling way about topics that would otherwise feel dry coming from a different writer.

i look forward to getting into his LBJ books in the future.
House designed on Passive House principles survives Cali wildfire
Perhaps this should be kept in mind while rebuilding all those houses that were lost?
Netflix might be American, but making Koreans have specifically American problems would ruin the suspension of disbelief.
x - (x - floor(x)) == x truncated to an integer

when x is an irrational number > 1:

"x - floor(x)" is just the fractional part of x, so it's an irrational number which is not equal to x.

Subtracting the fractional part from the original leaves only the integer part, which is obviously rational.
People will judge you as good or bad. I think that's the extent of my agreement. I'll use a common joke as my perspective here:

"I built bridges for 20 years and no one ever called me Joe the bridge builder, and I paved roads for 20 years and no one ever called me Joe the road paver. But I fucked one goat..."

Human judgement can be fickle and outright vain at times. If there's an idea of outright good or evil, I don't trust any human (let alone society) to cast a proper judgement as such.
"The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan"
By: Robert Kanigel

A biography of one of the most innovative mathematicians of all time traces the rise of Srinivasa Ramanujan from his days as a clerk to his collaboration with one of England's greatest mathematicians

There is also a movie with this same name. It was good, IMHO.
> Why wouldn't it be? Tech companies, perhaps until very recently, have been extremely left-leaning.

No. They have their own thing going on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology.

> During the 1990s, members of the entrepreneurial class in the information technology industry in Silicon Valley vocally promoted an ideology that combined the ideas of Marshall McLuhan with elements of radical individualism, libertarianism, and neoliberal economics, using publications like Wired magazine to promulgate their ideas. This ideology mixed New Left and New Right beliefs together based on their shared interest in anti-statism, the counterculture of the 1960s, and techno-utopianism.
> The circumstances of evolution and the laws of physics have placed limits on how many people you can influence without help, so there's a handy line already drawn.

That line drawn by "nature" also place limits on a lot more stuff humans do, good stuff. I wouldn't want to go back to the laws of the wilderness. Unless we're being selective on what can cross the line or not, but that's would be an arbitrary line as much as any other.

You can fight advertisement all you want, I encourage it. I sometimes do it too. However, I am fully aware that it won't solve the issue of systematic greed and manipulation.

If you allow me to be cheesy for a moment, I would say that the fight against advertisement does not work as previously advertised.
Currently, we are focused only on the mobile version, but in the future we may
many major pharmaceutical companies (like Novartis, Roche, or Sanofi) aren't even American

While true, their ability to charge so much more for the drugs they produce in US markets make them much more profitable than they otherwise would be. Money that they in theory can spend on innovation. Of course this leads them to prioritise drugs that are primarily targeting rich Americans and which in turn leads to your second point.
This makes me want to switch back more than ever.
The Founders Podcast (founderspodcast.com) would probably be the best source. There are a lot of book recommendations about how founders overcome obstacles to achieve great things.
It could make sense if they’re looking at a cohort of students.
That makes sense, and I hope it would work.
Still, that's maybe an old view of how software and business work. In truth the app is a whipped-together thing, and the 'company' selling it is a shell. The address is a blind PO box.

Law department visits the box and finds nobody. Shell company changes name (indeed, perhaps they have a different name for every victim) and resume operation immediately. Hell, they never stop selling for a millisecond.

Follow the money? Ha. The modern ideas of currency make such schemes bulletproof.
Ah yes, thanks for reminding us that the Pythagoras proved the square root of 2 was irrational by ... circular reasoning. /s
It's nice that you don't have this problem with the apps that you use, but others do.
It just isn’t true that AI has made developers more efficient. Some might claim such on this site, but the vast majority of developers aren’t using it, or they find it to be a drag on their productivity (because for most tasks the median software engineer has to do, it actually can’t help), and the ones that do use it are (unknowingly maybe) exaggerating its impact.

Devs are getting laid off, yes. AI is not the reason. Executive/shareholder priorities are the reason.
Why even have a button?
What to do if you're lost in the Australian bush
https://archive.today/uwOTz