skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Archive Team are absolute heros. The Google+ Mass Migration community learned of them and their "googleminus" project in January, and worked to help give information on the crawl, amount of data, and particulars of G+.

arkiver and Fusl in particular have been absolutely amazing in what they've accomplished.

They also managed to pull in 94.5% of all Google+ Communities, which should provide the ability to view posts by Community (they're otherwise scattered among user posts). We're still assessing how much of that was login-page redirects in the last hour or two of the crawl, but it's amazing work.

I'd managed to send of about 80k larger, recently-active (100+ members, <30 day activity) over the past few weeks, with a final grab about 18 hours ago, using the Internet Archive's "save" URL.

If you ever need to use that it's:

https://web.archive.org/save/<URL>

Where you replace "<URL>" with whatever it is you're trying to save, including the protocol string, say, this HN post:

https://web.archive.org/save/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19556665

That can be scripted, and my submissions used a bog-simple Bash script and xargs to plow through 100k submissions (20k appear to have been dead) in about 90 minutes, on very modest hardware.

Also: the Internet Archive (and Archive Team) run off volunteers and donations. You can help, and please do.

https://archive.org/donate/

https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Donate

(Not affiliated, but very grateful to them.)
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Does the ArchiveTeam coordinate with services like Google+ for archival? Are the techniques used (such as spreading the load across 1000s of separate IPs) used for anything other than getting around Google's integrity services e.g. ratelimiting?

I'm really curious how such a large operation is legally pulled off, especially when services like Google+ intentionally try to make scraping difficult (and presumably for large offenders, will attempt a C&D).
Recap of Intel's CPU Announcements at CES 2019
The Nudist On The Late Shift is a great one.

The Nat Geo TV series "Valley Of The Boom" was on earlier this year, that was entertaining.
Dev mode seems to work without any extra windows for me, maybe things are different now?
Make sense @yodon! I will think about it to try it out. It could be a very nice feature!
A huge browser-playable collection of Nikoli and other puzzles are at https://www.janko.at/Raetsel/Nikoli/index-2.htm
First, hardly a matter of "life and death". It merely increases still very small odds.

Second, it's not oral sex that increases the odds, it's papillomavirus, which can be transmitted through oral sex (but also through other means of sex, including kissing).

You could have oral sex with someone that doesn't have the papillomavirus as often as you want, and you wouldn't get cancer from. In fact even sticking to a single oral partner (e.g. your spouse) reduces the (already small) odds heavily, even if you're not sure whether they have HPV or not.
> expecting any kind of response from a vendor with such a large percentage of the market is... kinda arrogant.

Are you saying Google is too big to be responsible?

Amazon is huge, and I'm able to get a customer service represenatitve in seconds.
The majority of Googles profit/revenue still comes from search/advertising. It has generated wads of cash for them, but if they just sat on the cash it would not make Wall Street happy so they've thrown a bunch of money at different efforts to make it look like they have more than just search and advertising to boost the stock price. Because of that there has been no incentive to see these other products to fruition, but at the same time they could afford to throw money at it as it helped to boost the stock price. Now however there is the new threat of regulation in both the US and Europe with the later also starting to impose fines. This makes me wonder if part of the motivation is to retrench with investment because of some potentially significant headwinds.

My guess is that what people have observed inside of the company is a manifestation of that.
Similar drastic changes happened to AppEngine, where Google let it rot for something like a year with increasing, extremely bad, latencies and then a sudden very large pricing model shift that made it much more expensive. I was an early adopter of AppEngine, and just can't imagine ever screwing around with Google cloud technology ever again.
The copy I own says "Soon to be a movie" I wonder what ever happened to that. I re-read it for the first time since it came out, it aged way better than Gen-X did for me.
Not necessarily, no (in fact it may be inverted, e.g. managers making less than an engineer or technician under them).
Xeon Scalable “Cascade Lake” Processors Launch – Initial Linux Benchmarks Review
Thanks for sharing. Good to see other people considering alternatives. I’ll start looking at the options.
People already take adderall to pass exams and to do well at work. Some people do their best work drunk or after smoking pot. Some people even microdose psychadelics (and in biology, we wouldn’t have PCR if it weren’t for a fateful acid trip).

People take these performance enhancers because they work. The only thing stopping everyone from taking their gramme of soma a day is cost, access, and a willingness to experiment. Sometimes I wonder what could be achieved if we lowered these barriers we’ve put up based on antiquated views of moral character. Imagine if Einstein met Hoffman!
I'd agree with this.
If they'd done this in 2012 when they were the up and coming, they might be in the lead today.

I think ultimately this wasn't 'experimenting', this was Chef thinking they'd be in the lead _without_ open sourcing. When they realized otherwise, they open sourced as a defensive measure.
Ask HN: What does “an engineering culture” mean to you?
Academic managers force you. Your older colleagues force you because they are part of the game. However, it is possible to work in academia and not to bend.

Anyway, make your research available, no matter where you choose to publish it. Take a look at DORA http://www.ascb.org/dora/ and popularize this declaration among other researchers. Help your colleagues who don't know how to find an article fast.
My take on all this is that a lot of regular people are going to have one giant wakeup call at some point along the way here. Because the whole "if you're not doing anything wrong..." bit isn't going to prevent the excesses and the abuses anymore than it did in any Iron Curtain countries.

Big tech is going to destroy our lives if we allow it to and it's already getting stifling hot in here as far as the excesses.

And yet, we have 20+ million illegals in the US that nobody can get a line on. Yeah, right.
Undocumented is not one of its problems: There are 10,000+ pages at http://reference.wolfram.com
Not just every function, but many arguments have their own pages - every import format, entity type, method. The problem is finding the right function.
Imagine trying to find or even implement exploits against such a system:

> The CompuServe system used non-standard PDP-10-based hardware along with a custom version of TOPS-10. As a result, booting it in one of the available emulators is next to impossible. But I hoped the disk images could be attached to a standard TOPS-10 system as secondary disks somehow.

Especially when all those manuals weren't freely available...
Who installs chrome as setuid root?
Very true. I work at a non-FAANG, non-West Coast company and my initial job offer was 55/45 cash to stock ratio. Due to stock appreciation, that's changed to 45/55 cash to stock. Including only base compensation makes no sense.

My current base salary is exactly the same as it was at my last startup, but my income has more than doubled.
I don't know if ArchiveTeam's bots can be logged in as Google Accounts, but I can still (for the time being at least!) browse around on a GSuite account, and an old grandfathered-in "Google Apps for Business" account
Build a live subscription count down with Angular
I wonder too. I was berated on here for mentioning that I deleted my reddit comments when I quit reddit, as if I was somehow stealing (my own content) from the users. Just weird IMO.
Half of Cyber-Attacks Involve the Supply Chain
I moved from NYC to Tanzania and spousal abuse, cancer, poverty, and crime is way higher here than there. The only tangibly better part of the culture is the sense of community.

I love Tanzania, but I recognize that it’s because I have the money to live a very good life here.

Unfortunately, I’ve gotten a little addicted to the power of having a cook, housekeeper, and gardener for under $15/day total. I miss NYC, but I also realize how hard it will be to go back to just being an average joe.
Absolutely. As I commented elsewhere here, I suffered from a depressive episode after a close friend committed suicide.

The lack of energy is extraordinary and what I experienced must have been mild compared to what others with severe depression suffer from.

Anecdote: a sliding door slipped from its rail because there was no stopper at the end of the rail and it had to be moved back in place. It is neither heavy nor difficult to do it.

I gave up after the first attempt to fix it.

Depression is nothing that I would ever wish on anyone, no matter how much I might hate that person.
This sounds interesting but also shady. Are you getting permission to implement these apis? Do your users know how you are implementing this stuff?
Intel at CES: Nervana; 10nm Server CPU; Cascade Lake
> Now we are trying to keep every one of those insignificant things, for what purpose?

What seems unimportant and insignificant to us now might become very interesting in the future. People in the future might consider the arrival of the internet as the beginning of a new age. Furthermore, some things may seem obvious to a person born in our times, but might not be obvious to people born in the future.

So many works, including even movies from the 20th century are lost now. E.g. the original version of Metropolis used during its premiere screening. Diogenes wasn't just a guy living in the town square, he also created some written works. They are lost now.
Do you support on-prem?
Archaeologically, I think people tend to be interested in a lot of things about society that don't get well-preserved. Social media offers potentially a time capsule to the lives of ordinary citizens today in the distant future.

That being said, I intend to ask the Internet Archive to remove my personal G+ profile.
I have thousands of Evernote notes and have been an Evernote user since 2009. I’ve often thought of switching to Apple notes but I stick with Evernote. If I could change things, I’d make searching better and I’d find a better ways to create utility from old notes.
> Would such a thing even work on the MAX design?

Yes, because the problem with the MAX is that the engines provide an off-center-of-gravity thrust. If the engines weren't running, the MAX would glide just like any other 737.

There is also the case of the Gimli Glider [1], and any commercial airliner is certainly capable of "gliding" for at least some time, but I think the GP was adhering more to the actual definition of "glider" [2], which is an aircraft that can fly entirely without power from any engines at all.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(aircraft)
I think it's pretty fair (although naive, obviously) to expect soldiers and intelligence agencies alike to, you know, actually just keep us safe.
Does anyone remember his book "A New Kind of Science" which was a really discredited, unoriginal, hack-fraudish, non-scientifically vetted essay on cellular automata?
Ah, an uncontrollable AI spam bot, nice...
Meaning what?
Content that is created is valuable to someone, somewhere.

This is probably my favorite Google Plus post:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9FEWJo...
More often than not, what today sounds insignificant can become significant tomorrow - if not for everyone, then at least for some.

Personally i have dug a lot on old websites stored at the web archive trying to find information and files (especially patches, older software and amateur games that few knew about) seemingly lost. For me the Archive (not just the web archive but all the archive.org projects) is as important as Wikipedia (and donate to both).
I'm pretty sure the hope is that this will lead to the development of a parallel track of game developers who make games that would otherwise be too difficult or expensive to make on old platforms.

It makes sense on paper: latency isn't an issue because Google's network is excellent. The browser is a widespread and powerful distribution network which gives you access to both desktop and mobile. The cost of development should be lower because you don't need to buy expensive development kits and licenses/certifications.

My personal view is that this isn't a technical problem but rather a bizdev problem, and Google's approach to solving things tends to be "throw out some tech and hope people use it," which is straight up not going to work with investment-heavy industries like games.
You're assuming that all 30,000 followers are actual people rather than more bots or spam accounts.
Barter is even more of an absurdist corner case than Sowell's beach houses. It doesn't contribute to the question of whether UBI will grow the economy.

Ok, let's take this from another angle. Does bankruptcy at a large scale help the economy? Foreclosure? Homelessness? It seems reasonable to me that people are more likely to contribute to the economy if they aren't bankrupt and homeless. It seems likely that their children are more likely to become successful contributors.

And it's obvious that UBI can reduce these problems substantially. After all, homelessness isn't caused by a shortage of homes. It's caused by financial distribution problems. So right there, we have an opportunity for growth.

Now, I'm not arguing that UBI will totally pay for itself here either. But it seems likely to produce some economic growth, just because it does the most for the people currently least able to participate in the economy, and that's a majority of the population.
You meant anecdotes, right?
It's similar to blood sausages, that are popular in many places, there are sweet versions too
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sausage
Microsoft Is Closing Its eBook Store, Edge Support – Thurrott.com
Using Deep Learning to Improve Usability on Mobile Devices
>If you're a football player or a film director, add drugs probably won't do much

FYI, the NFL considers amphetamines and substituted amphetamines to be performance-enhancing drugs. As does the International Olympic Committee.
Have you tried looking into data.gov. They have really good dataset you might find it useful.
They use the ArchiveTeam Warrrior VM, so they have access to many public IPs: https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warr...
Also linking events and destroying plausible deniability.
> And this is exactly the problem about Google! They only care about direct metrics: Product A generates only x million $ per year -> it must be canceled.

Microsoft doesn't consider a product unless it can generate more than $100M a year.

It's a general mode of operation for big companies, not limited to Google.
True, this has happened with other similar sites before. The difference as I see it with Invidious is that it is an open-source project [1] that anyone can host. If the main page [2] goes down, you can divert immediately to an alternative host (take [3] as one example). All my RSS subscriptions are one search-and-replace away in my OPML file.

[1] https://github.com/omarroth/invidious

[2] https://www.invidio.us

[3] https://www.invidiou.sh
'Molecular surgery' reshapes living tissue with electricity but no incisions
That's a really bad advice for US residents. Maybe their flagging ML system doesn't work well on random Chinese addresses, but with US history they pretty much either prevent a creation of a new account in any way associated with an old banned account, immediately flag it for a review requiring extensive internal company documentation/proofs or remove it in regular (quarterly?) sweeps when they kick bunches of sellers from their platform.

"Funny" thing is their anomaly detection algorithms are really bad and they tend to keep counterfeit sellers while kicking out genuine ones more often with no way to appeal in a reasonable fashion, i.e. paying some external company with individual ties to Amazon managers to reinstate sellers... Complete mafia around selling on that badly designed platform.
While working full-time? Not everyone can afford to take a week off of work just to interview at companies that may not necessarily extend you an offer.
Amazon has customers that they sell products to. Google has products (us) that they sell info about to others. It's kind of a big difference.
I've been surprised that there hasn't been much pushback/questioning (from what I've seen) on this archive effort. Of course people voluntarily published the information here. But they also had at least a little control over how and what was presented to the world. Now they don't.

Is archive team going to respond if someone finds something in the archive they want to take down? Is there a listing somewhere of exactly what is archived (does it include pictures from google plus?)? I couldn't find it, and I don't want to go rooting around in the actual archive itself (if that is even possible).
Chef (and configuration management in general) is an anti-pattern for a cloud native approach.

The soup of the Chef ecosystem has always seemed hard to understand (and teach new team members): Chef, Chef-solo/zero, rubocup, test kitchen, food critic, berkshelf automate, delivery druck, inspec, infa, etc...

With containers and immutable infrastructure there just isn't the need anymore. They obviously realized this and created Habitat as a response, but after trying it a few times, I don't see why I'd use it over plain old Docker + K8s.

If you still need configuration management, Ansible is more flexible, is easier to learn/teach (no need to learn Ruby), agentless, no need to run a sever and can also do some orchestration.
Do SaaS Startups Still Require Less Capital Than 10 Years Ago?
Why would it not? You still have to be able to fly the thing in case of a dual engine failure.

MCAS has one function: give the MAX 8 flight characteristics that are similar enough to previous versions to not require significant training.

In fact, it's only when the engines are actually working that you'd need this... they're more powerful and further forward, meaning that at high thrust the aircraft will have more of a tendency to pitch up.
Isn’t the culture the problem, and that’s why they are leaving?
By “violet light” you mean a 400 nm laser or something? Or a blacklight? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklight

In normal circumstances (say, daylight surroundings), a moderate amount of light at very short wavelengths won’t look like much of anything at all, bluish–black, because the cone cells (especially L and M cones which determine red–green response) will be getting much more stimulus from other wavelengths.

If you go to a completely dark room, let your eyes adapt, and look at a blacklight, then you are right that you are at that point going to see it looking purplish because the L cones are stimulated a bit more than the M cones for those wavelengths, and other wavelengths are entirely absent. But this is a really weird edge case for vision.
Here are some signs of burnout:
Thinking about leaving the job every day.
Not enjoying things that used to enjoy before.
Irascible
Thinking about taking sick days

The things you can do is :
Take a few days off
Try to sleep a lot
There's so much here that it's almost impossible to decide what to comment on. The bit about sending the best Frostbite programmers to work on FIFA is pretty damning. EA brass is apparently as boneheaded and old-guard minded as they say.
Or ... do we have Mars-based DNA?
Well, as a Reddit user i dislike these "delete old comments" scripts since i very often read old discussions about topics i find interesting and when i hit the occasional "deleted by script foo, do it yourself too because reddit evil" i get irritated since they make following that old discussion hard.

It is your account of course, but i still dislike the practice since it goes counter to the entire purpose of a discussion site.
I'm going to miss it. A lot.
> The notes are in some kind of weird text box inside the page, which can scroll in weird directions? I don't understand it

It's meant for drawing and rich media, so you can type notes and draw/paint in the same document. And for that particular use case, if you own a Surface Pen or such it is kind of nice to use.

But I suspect the majority of people in OneNote just need to type out notes. I agree with you, and I wish OneNote had some concept of a "typed-only" note, that did away with the weird textboxing-layouting stuff.
Scale Storage Out with New Elastifile Cloud File Service for GCP
Customers/users/developers don't care what the reasons are, only that it continues to happen. What is especially irksome to many is that they are shutting down products/services that found an audience... just not one large enough, fast enough to Google's taste. The more they shut down products, the longer many are going to wait before even considering using one of their new products/services especially if there's a cost associated with it. It becomes a self-reinforcing cycle: Google launches a new product, customers/users/developers wait to see if Google is really serious about it, Google shuts down product because it never attracts the critical mass it needs to see, customers/users/developers get even more jaded toward the next one... rinse and repeat.
>Each property is its' own LLC to minimize potential liability/risk.

The individual SVP structure for rental properties is primarily used to avoid land sale taxes. Sell the shares, not the building/land etc. to benefit from a different tax regime.
I own the book, and I enjoyed at least some parts of it. Primitive cellular automata classification also had some scientific merit, and now widely cited. It could be shorter and/or probably better structured as a series of blog posts, but it doesn’t deserve such vitriol, in my opinion.
I think this brushes against the reason most people do things... you probably could buy your way into a shortcut, but for some people the utility of the time here AND knowing it worked was higher than just paying for the shortcuts known to everyone.
>He obviously doesn't like their tech (calling TypeScript a variant of js?)

Well, to his defense, TypeScript is indeed a variant of JS.
This is rather creepy if I'm honest - why are you scraping user's profile data? Is there a way I can request that you delete any of my data that may be in there?
Ok, I'll accept that. I hadn't wholly considered the relationship with the channels followers.
I don't see your point. For products you pay for, you can get Google support in seconds as well.

This really isn't a customer support question.
Applications of Reinforcement Learning in Real World (2018)
Sounds a bit like Transcriptic, is this compilation process of protocols the distinction?
The internet before streaming (when downloading postage stamp clips took 3 hours) was close to that described state, and people just exchanged burned CDRs right and left.

Even elderly people were using and watching pirated stuff installed by their kids as they just couldn’t bother.

No DRM support in major browsers would mean pirating becomes the #1 way to see anything again.