skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would be nice if they made a bloom filter for anyone to use. On second thought, you can do that yourself based on the SHA-1 hashes of passwords they offer for download.

Edit: On third thought, a bloom filter for 502M entries and a false positive rate of 0.1% ends up as a 800MiB large filter. Binary-searching the whole dump is surely faster.
“I have tremendous faith in the new, young leadership of AfD”
Show HN: Epic levels of tracking from a website
I was looking into alternative mail clients for Windows and came across a site called AddictiveTips [0] and was immediately shown their cookie and spying declaration.

I use UBlock Origin and block all third party cookies and empty my browser when it's closed and I thought I had seen it all with newspapers taking the piss with their trackers but these people are showing an extreme level of contempt for visitors.

If I am to interpret them correctly, they want to save hundreds of cookies on my computer and pass my data to potentially dozens and dozens of third parties, some of which (in fact a fair few) duplicate the efforts of others.

WTH?

[0] - https://www.addictivetips.com/
Tasks assigned to older devs I've worked with generally sail through QA. So even if they're not as fast to put in a PR (though this has not been my personal experience either), they're a lot more efficient getting their code into production.
yes, it looks very nice. i dont have a need to generate pdf's unfortunately so i'm not your target market. good luck. great to productize your side effects.
I wonder if they ever tried `yarn --pure-lockfile` to avoid updating the lockfile unnecessarily?

> We never observed install inconsistencies when using npm previously

Interesting, since NPM has had issues being deterministic since package-lock came to be, and this was one of the main reasons yarn was created.

The fact that yarn has a healthy community, actually accepts contributions, and encourages public discussion is a big pro for me (colored by personal experience).
Subsonic/Ampache wins when it comes to client support. mStream's biggest downside is the lack of good mobile clients.

mStream has an advantage in the areas of DB and installation. mStream makes use of LokiJS, an in-memory DB that is VERY fast. mStream also comes packaged as a single click installer for Win/OSX (see the release pages for this). These installers have no dependencies and are configurable via a GUI, making very easy for non-technical people to setup their own home servers.

mStream is also taking a turn to support a different market in the future. I'm working on adding eCommerce tools to the server, so bands and musicians can use it as a way to sell music/merch without having a 3rd party take a cut of the revenue.

Also mStream will always be FOSS, if that matters to you
Writing Multithreaded Applications in C++ (the right way) (2015)
This is a very old problem and not limited to spacecraft. If you sail around the world eastward, each of your days is slightly shorter than the days of your countrymen and by the time you get home, you will have experienced a full additional day-night cycle. I think the solutions would be the same: separate timekeeping standards where it makes sense, like Mars, and frequent corrections to spaceships' clocks to keep in step with a universal standard like UTC as sailing ships used to do[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noon_Gun#Time_signalling
Microsoft Store gets design refresh as new Progressive Web Apps arrive
A better headline might read "I wrote a review on Yelp in which I accused a doctor of committing insurance fraud on other patients that I had no actual knowledge of, and it made my life a nightmare".

Courts have established that you can write negative reviews and that they fall well within rights to freedom of speech. She isn't being sued for giving the guy a one-star review and saying "This place sucks". There's one sentence she wrote that has cost her $20k:

"I suspect that this doctor gives unnecessary procedure to
a lot of people and then charges the insurance sky high
prices and no one knows the difference."
I wrote the current version of OSS memcached. I don't know how elasticache is configured, but as I said memcached itself can definitely saturate the network from that instance. Either the version they run is too old or it's misconfigured. If I were to compare a "custom FPGA caching service" vs something memcached like, I would take the same 4xlarge instance and just run memcached on it.

On a large enough machine I've gotten it up past 55 million read ops/sec. It's quite good at read throughput.

I'm also familiar with the cache clusters at major companies.
Looks like the site is being hugged to death!
The Science of the Psychedelic Renaissance
Introducing Kepler.gl, Uber’s Open Source Geospatial Toolbox
I'm looking at the idea of providing that service for charities and hobby projects for free. Still not quite sure about my own legal exposure.
I felt pretty much the same way when reading it. "The Name of the Wind" is rather unusual as a novel because those first chapters are pretty fundamentally different than the rest of the novel. Not just in terms of plot, but I think also the general tone and style. I don't actually have a count, but I think it's a good 50-100 pages before the novel falls into its rhythm. It's not that the beginning is bad (in my opinion, obviously) it's just that there's a lot to set up and he does so without using a bunch of exposition.
Yeah, but you talking about supporting a website/service. I replied to the 'If I were building an advertising business today ...'
Medical consensus has nothing to do with whether you lose your job for being a bigot.
> Getting all of these technologies to work together was a real challenge. I had to dig through countless GitHub issues and dozens of example projects to make all these things work together. I'm offering this repo as a starter pack for other people with a Bazel monorepo targeting Kubernetes.

So, if it was such a hassle just to get them all glued together- how would they fair for a project that adopts it and matures?
The radio edit. It's not just for bleeping out swear words.
Should work now, the problem apparently was in some errant router.
> Academic journals don't result in any value creation for society

Journals do provide some value. Editing, printing, and herding academics through the camera-ready process all require non-trivial effort.

I would have absolutely no problem with a handful of universities/non-profits/even for-profits devoting some staff to the curation/archival process. And also no problem with those organizations charging others modest fees to fund that work.

The problem with journals is that they capture a lot more value than they provide, that value is not distributed back to the people doing the actual work, and the prestige signal/branding provides a strong moat.

I REALLY think this is an important point. If we continue to behave like all of this stuff is trivial and obvious to replicate, then we'll be forever stuck with predatory journals like Nature.
Traffic flow measured on different 4-way junctions [video]
Is this true? From the article: ''ska::flat_hash_map has a max_load_factor of 0.5''. ska::flat_hash_map is the author's implementation (but maybe not the most recent iteration ?)
Ok but then shouldn't we not listen to Bezos either and wait to talk about this until Blue Origin's good people have launched, landed and returned a spacecraft from the moon?
It's not "if the hospital discovers", it's if the patient is uninsured and makes it clear to the billing department that they're hopelessly broke, then the hospital gets flexible with the charges or even writes them off. Many billing departments have flexibility and expect to write off a fair number of bills rather than send them to collections, but they're hardly pushing discounted bills or automatically giving discounts.
Calling a group of people racist and then generalizing all Indian Americans as being ideal immigrants is about as contradictory as you can get in one argument
I doubt it, since the argument you're suggesting is that the ISP didn't take the best possible care, whereas the standard for negligence is, I believe (IANAL), reasonable care.

They may also not even have a duty of care in the first place, as to the truth of any metadata they're passing on. As a sibling comment pointed out, it's not as if there are laws for this.
Very fun to read but may be too advanced to start with... is there a particular reason why I couldn't or should't run this on a regular core i7 7700k powered machine?
It's my understanding that Venmo will flag transactions with certain words in the memo.

"I Tried to Venmo $12.66 for 'ISIS' and the Government Was Pissed

It turns out the Treasury Department doesn't appreciate my sense of humor."

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5gqyzd/i-tried-to-venmo-1...
Zedenv ZFS Boot Environment Manager
Introduction to Docker and Traefik
Used to be a fan of weave as a CNI. But i've never actually heard anyone or team using them, it seems consensus is on calico or flannel?
I'm not sure I like the new npm. It seems faster but it's annoying to use it with how often it prompts you to update it and all the verbosity, annoying messages about peer dependencies, and now audits that you can't really do anything about. There's just so much noise now. Old version just worked and got out the way.
Would stopping ageing mean dictators could rule forever?
Sundial cannon
I would also recommend any ancient history written by Tom Holland - "Persian Fire" about the Persian invasion of Greece is a good introduction to the era. Also, Adam Nicholson's "The Might Dead: Why Homer Matters" is a brilliant read, linking such disparate topics as Albanian and Scottish bardic traditions, and LA gang culture.
A little addendum, I'm also contemplating to create a manual service where you could send me a document in any format (JPG, PSD, Microsoft Word) and I'd create a REST endpoint that you can call with the data that you want to have inserted into the document. The output of this rest endpoint would be the binary PDF data.

This way your dev team would not have to invest any time at all in the creation of PDF documents. Shoot me a mail at the email address in my profile if you want to know more.
C# Access Database Connection (Select, Insert, Delete ) Sample Application
The problem is, renting often ends up owning you too. I'm no stranger to the anxiety of leaky pipes, dry rot, flooded garages, water damage, crazy people you can't easily more away from. On the other hand, I know people who have had to move a few times now because their rent keeps getting jacked up. Single family houses, as well as apartments in many Bay Area cities, aren't rent controlled, so you never know when you're going to be looking at a huge rent increase.

Choose your poison.
If you grow a lot with people moving across the country to work where you're at, you'll be disproportionately young as a result.
I actually had something similar to this in my notes but didn't get around to adding it. Basically, 60 minutes seems kind of arbitrary for an entire system of time (at least to me!) and then I realized that once you split it down into half, thirds, quarters, etc., it's basically the best numbers to use for informal conversations about time. That was pretty illuminating when I read about that; thanks for pointing it out here!
I agree. I think there may be social pressure (implied, inherent, made-up) or laziness or unawareness that perpetuates this. You can make private the default setting. The idea of broadcasting your finances only makes sense for social messaging/indicating.
Legality aside, has there ever been an instance of a researcher getting a DMCA notice for posting a paper they wrote on their own website?

Even if you got a DMCA, couldn't you just direct link to a scihub search result that contains your paper?

Edit: I love it when I find my work on scihub. It means it was good enough to 'steal'.
Looks like it's already happening. I see that some books are "promoted".
HashLife – An Algorithm for Compressing Space and Time
Pagerank is a kind of citations system.
I don't know much about the complexities of this task so excuse my question if it's too obvious.

How is it different/better than using puppeteer? If it's better, maybe SxS comparisons of generated pdfs could be a good selling point.
Universities could be in conflict of interest - organizing review of competing (or worse its own) research
Misspelled map key
Generating PDF's from HTML and Web Technologies is nothing new. There are tons of PHP and Node.js libs e.g I could host a service in minutes with the help of https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer in only few lines of code. Hosting that service on digital-ocean would reduce the cost to ~5/month. Cheers!
Url changed from https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/05/injury-lawyers-p..., which points to this.
Good. Science publishing is a ridiculous racket.
You should have used her manager's name instead.
If an employer fears this and truly feels this way that should be a signal to look at what's going on in their workforce, where gaps exist, and how someone with an "overqualified" work background can help the company close those gaps. You get to evaluate someone without feeling slimy for asking interviewees to work for free, the employee gets valuable experience and increases their worth to you as an organization and it makes it easier to promote them or give them commensurate pay (which: if this is what it took to pay someone overqualified what they're worth to begin with, then you probably deserve to have that person leave).

Sorry if it sounds abrasive-coming from a long history of being tired of the shallow excuses employers have for disqualifying great candidates while simultaneously bemoaning a "talent shortage".
It was a hassle mostly because a lot of the libraries are new and the interfaces are still changing a lot. Bazel is a fantastic build tool that I'd recommend for large projects. The Bazel + gRPC story, though, has a ways to go.

But I don't see any reason why you shouldn't use Bazel + gRPC for a larger project. You may have to tweak small things in the future but I suspect that the UX will only improve. Plus, you can always write your own Skylark rules if Bazel isn't cutting it for you in some way.
Note that recovering the plain MAC address from SHA256(MAC) costs a single GPU day on a 1080.
Software is built for humans to use in the real world. While reshaping the entire world might make the code simpler, it's not a practical solution.
So the article seems to imply you should store all timestamps as UTC (with an additional timezone string ID). But for events in the future that needs to happen on a specific "wall clock point in time", it might be better to actually store the yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss as a string with a timezone next to it, because timezones can and do change often unpredictably. If you pre-calculate what "4.00pm next August 1st" is as a UTC timestamp today, and the timezone rules are updated between now and then, your UTC timestamp may end up being incorrect. I guess you could have an additional "precalculated-utc-timestamp" column but regularly re-calculate this from the "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss + timezoneID" (especially when you upgrade your Olson tzdata).
As the author of the "show my hand" comment, it's posters like you that make me avoid Hacker News as a regressive techbro cesspit, so I'm pretty glad you left Mastodon.
Believe that the author was actually specifically referring to LXC (misnamed as "LXE" in the article), with his Docker reference.
I actually have separate implementations of an algorithm with and without templates; the template one is for benchmarking with different combinations of options; the non-template one is for readability, and it's only about 60 lines.
The Ottoman child "collecting" (Turkish: devşirme, devisirme) was an Ottoman practice of kidnapping young boys, especially Christians in the Balkans, for the purpose of raising them as soldiers or staffing sultan services( mainly sexual services)
I have a list of recipe "reactions" [1] which is compiled into a giant network of recipes. When a recipe is chosen, the directions are generated recursively from this network.

[1]: https://github.com/schollz/recursive-recipes/blob/master/rec...
Thank you. Pricing is still experimental, I'm hoping that the easy API interface and the lack of maintenance that my clients would need to do provide a lot more value than the monthly cost.

The stack is Linux on Docker, running a tweaked version of headless Chrome with an API created in Node.
Our criteria mainly depended on internal testing to see which pre-packaged algorithms performed better on our data. While performance does vary with the domain (or in our case, industry of feedback we are analyzing), we have found it to be more efficient to find the overall effectiveness of one platform and deploy it for all of our analysis.

As far as the domain affecting the algorithm, it can vary from some algorithms maintaining decent performance over most industries, to some algorithms working very well for some industries and terribly for others. Although it is just feedback, the topic of the feedback and even the ways people talk about the same topic (such as price of the product) will vary across each industry.
The Ottomans (and Turks by extension) are absolutely fascinating.

Consider that from the time of the Roman Empire until the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Byzantines considered themselves Roman. The Turks considered themselves successors of that (Kayser-i Rum) and at various points had a territory that looked a lot like the old Empire. Of course the societies were very different, but if you try hard enough you can imagine the last vestiges of Rome finally falling after WW1.

But the Turks, they were Central Asian tribes (closer to the Mongols than to Arabs or Europeans) who ended up conquering the Eastern Roman Empire (over centuries) and eventually ended up at the gates of Vienna.

The amount of mixing of cultures, religions (consider the Janisseries) and races is crazy. Check out depictions of the first Ottoman Emperors compared to the last. Another example of how people are a lot more connected than we think.

This was a great read:

https://www.amazon.com/1453-Holy-Constantinople-Clash-Islam/...

The Arabs, Avars, and others were besieging Constantinople in the 700s. It took another 700 years and Mehmet's use of cannon to bring the walls down and really change history.

Also Manizkert and other events are interesting. Really an underrated part of history. Fun to geek out over it.
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Buying a bank exposes you to being regulated and restricted as one, just as doing business on Government contracts adds a bunch of friction and overhead to every transaction and to your business (ask Google/Alphabet). The key to mass payments is lower friction per payment. Tech can fix a lot of things that regulation had to be used to prevent, but you have to pay the regulatory cost before you can remove the requirement for it. It's a bit of a Catch 22 in the US.
Thanks, I appreciate the nitpicking :)
Very cool. Eventually I'd like to turn Colossus into something more like what you have here, i.e. a "real" backend that does something meaningful. The good news is that the Bazel + gRPC plumbing was the hard part. Adding new, meaningful services will be pretty trivial going forward.
IIRC audio over HDMI doesn't work yet (but the audio jack from the joypad works) and recently they added support for the slim and latest fat models HDMI video encoder chip.

The biggest drawback is the lack of persistence, especially if you want to use it as a server: you execute the exploit from the browser and load a Linux distribution from an external USB disk (not a real problem in itself as also the internal SATA HD is connected to the USB southbridge ^__^;)

There are some videos on YouTube that show working 3D HW acceleration tho.
Until we get rid of daylight savings times everywhere, dual representations will still require a lot of effort to provide.
Could perhaps have jumped to integrated circuits as soon as transistors could be built, but vacuum tubes were buildable well before transistors. I think that with the existing industrial base as one resource, and knowledge of future technology as the other, semiconductor grade silicon could have been produced as early as the mid 1930s. Not much sooner. Germanium is rarer and less optimal in many ways (small band gap) but it is easier to purify. Could you make simple ICs based on germanium instead of silicon earlier than the mid 1930s? I don’t know what additional complications the germanium path might have. Maybe it’s impractical for reasons other than material purity.
I've really enjoyed Udemy Python courses. Just make sure to use a coupon to get them for like 10 bucks.
I have been going through Cisco Netacad materials for last 2 years and I've seen 1.1.1.1 in examples.
Though I just did a search and did not see 1.1.1.1 mentioned anymore.
EOS Has Officially Raised Over $4B
Why specifically is it worse than FB? If all those ad networks merged into BlueKai aka Oracle, so the data was kept "internal", would that be better?
Simple layout and fast loading time: big plus. I think the copy could be better. Put more focus on the strengths. Don't use the link-blue color if it isn't a link.

About the PDF results: I get mobile versions of websites a lot, but I guess in normal use cases you won't even request those.
Understanding that male and female humans exist independently of anyone's "identity" doesn't make you a bigot.
Something about this reads like a viral ad for Venmo. It's as if it is trying to draw you in to the app to see what your friends are doing.
Great suggestions. There are actually sources for the price calculations but I wasn't sure yet how to display them, or if they were wanted. If you want them then someone else probably does too so I can add that.
I've read and been exposed to a lot of other research with regards to consensus [1], but I'd love to see another point of view. Maybe you could post a few other sources that disagree?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_transsexuality
The Blockchain and Fur Trade
I made a similar comment when streams were first announced, but didn't get feedback.

My question is about using streams for event-sourcing, in similar cases to how Kafka is frequently used. In such cases, the expectation for persistence is paramount, as the event log is ultimately the primary source of truth for the entire application. The actual utility of having the event log in memory is only really important while the consumer groups are reading it, after which it mostly just needs to be archived.

So my question is, are the common strategies used by Redis to persist to disk going to try to keep the whole event log in memory, or will they be able to intelligently offload to disk? Otherwise, is the expectation that clients will instead write to the stream, and consumers will be responsible for consuming, writing to some persistent layer like s3, and then removing from the stream?
> I would be shocked if they came out of the midterms in the same or better shape

More shocked than when Trump won in 2016?
> It imagines the entire population of London choked to death under a soot-filled fog. The story is told by the event’s lone survivor sixty years later as he recalls “the greatest calamity that perhaps this earth has ever witnessed” at what was, for Hay’s first readers, the distant future date of 1942.

He was 10 years out...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London

(and a few orders of magnitude of survivor numbers tbf)
Which domains do I need to unblock in uBlock Origin in order to make that app work?