skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just clear cache and cookies.
You can append ?mod=rsswn at the end of WSJ urls to get non-paywall links. I submitted the story with this param but for some reason it's missing. Maybe I made some mistake in copy/pasting. I learnt about this trick from a HN comment in the past.
Show HN: Easys3 – Tiny Ruby Gem to Put and Get S3 with Single Line of Code
Not OP, but you can embed Google Analytics (or Tag Manager) into your Hugo template, and it's fairly straightforward to do.

Comments I'm not entirely sure of, because I never wanted them on my site in the first place!
Nuclear was "competing" against coal when vendors were lowballing bids (or eating cost overruns themselves on a few fixed-cost contracts before they learned to not do that.)

The first nuclear building boom in the US went disastrously badly on costs. That's ultimately why it ended, not accidents or regulations. The economics just didn't work.

Forbes magazine in Feb 1985 said it well:

"The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale. The utility industry has already invested $125 billion in nuclear power, with an additional $140 billion to come before the decade is out, and only the blind, or the biased, can now think that most of the money has been well spent. It is a defeat for the U.S. consumer and for the competitiveness of U.S. industry, for the utilities that undertook the program and for the private enterprise system that made it possible."

The only places in the world where nuclear has "succeeded" are those where opaque financial systems have cloaked the true cost of the technology.
“Either build something to our unaffordable standards ‘for your safety’ or die”
Yeah as a courtesy, if X is easy to answer, it's better to answer it and then ask about Y.
i have the opposite experience with Rackspace. The low end stuff (hosted exchange etc) is basically useless, people who are obviously on multiple chats, they let tickets sit for days...

Even when we had small handful of physical servers with them, they seemed inept. They actually lost our servers one time and couldn’t get someone out to reset power on our firewall.
I am about to start work on a data science platform with Argo and K8s for a client. Really strong use case for embaressenly parrellel applications
First time I hear about k3s. Can it be configured to use lxc/lxd instead of docker?

(Nothing wrong with docker, its just that some nodes are already running lxc)
Is the Economist really implying that Cook, the CEO of Apple, one of the world's largest publicly traded corporations, has not thought about forming a future facing outlook that is comprehensive in its strategy and planning?

A cursory glance at Apple's leadership page shows that Isabel Ge Mahe is vice president and managing director of Greater China [1], which to me indicates that yes, Apple definitely is thinking about China at a high level, by formally naming an executive specifically to focus on strategy in China. This is further indicated in their recent highlighting of Chinese-centric features on OS products at events such as WWDC.

As far as the trade war is concerned, I think it's a little premature to assume that it will drag on and increase in its scope and scale. Apple has pull in D.C., and the interconnected nature of the global economy will likely ensure that there will be a resolution to this at some point in the near future.

[1] https://www.apple.com/leadership/isabel-ge-mahe/
Honest question: do you want to see Google broken up or heavily regulated? If I were lucky enough to work at Google, I think I'd be cheering for regulation so I could enjoy all the sweet comp and meaningful work without feeling conflicted about the truly dark parts of the company. Isn't that Google a much better Google to work for?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18647750
I haven't gone through all of your notes yet, but this would've been a godsend to go over in highschool before I started my EE classes in college. It was always obvious which students had been lucky enough to already cover the material.
I use Alexa nearly every day to tell me the weather while I'm getting dressed and to play music on spotify. I ask it the occasional math problem, trivia question, etc.

Paranoia aside, what's my exposure level?
>Imagine that Euclid's algorithm was patented? Or Pythagoras theorem? Or the definition of exterior derivative? Or the expression of a function as Fourier series?

This is an interesting point and I'm not sure it cuts the way you want it to.

The world had to wait thousands of years for each of these algorithms to be developed. There are broad reasons for this, but one of them was probably the fact that nobody had any incentive to develop them. Mankind literally had to wait around for some random nerd to come up with these in his spare time.

Now imagine that they were patentable and exploitable for money (for 20 years). Perhaps they would have been developed centuries or millennia earlier. You would have teams of mathematicians from 1000BC onward, working to try to make money inventing theorems and machines and medicines.

20 years under patent seems like a small cost to pay to have something invented possibly thousands of years earlier (or, not kept under trade secret, as e.g. Damascus steel was).
They have a history of doing far fetched things, don't they?
I think it may be too abstract for humans to understand intuitively, at least until there is some sort of serious concrete consequence that befalls them.

we are finally getting to the point where non-tech people understand the importance of strong passwords. they might fail to actually implement strong passwords, but they can easily understand that it would be really bad if a malicious actor gained access to their banking or email account.

it's harder to understand how large-scale data collection is bad for you as an individual. privacy-minded people oppose it on principle, but for most it's hard to imagine a severe consequence in the short term. targeted ads can be kind of unnerving, but it doesn't exactly get people quaking in their boots.
This is amazing ! Really well put together!
I've been using Hetzner Cloud and have been quite happy with it.
Have you tried minikube? If you have, how's it compared to k3s/microk8s? The reason I ask is, k3s is not supported on Windows.

Also, Rio sounds like "host your own Google App Engine" — am I right?
That's not what I said though. I said as the biggest CSP they have signals no one else has access to. I didn't say they were reading your RDS boxes.
Are you in the Bay Area though? If you are, then the people applying may well not be able to afford living without Bay Area salaries.
Were you using credit from something education related?
HN always had a boner for web-crawler hate. How dare you automate downloading of public data others post online!
We don’t have unprofitable customers, just unhappy accidents
Reverse Engineering the Walk Score Algorithm
Luke used to post here quite a bit too
Prediction: In a year, adblocking extensions on Chrome will still block the same percentage of ads from Google's networks as they do on Firefox. Care to make a bet?
You should expect to be safe from that detective in your own house, because we’ve drawn a very clear distinction—that detective is breaking the law by snooping on what you do in your own private residence. If the police wanted to discover what you were doing in your own home, they’d have to get a warrant in order to not be breaking the law by doing that (“warrant” literally being defined as “a writ making something that’s normally illegal to do, temporarily not, for you, in this situation.”)

Whereas, neither the private detective, nor the police, would be breaking the law by snooping on you in the public square. So either/both would feel empowered to do so, because society does not think such an action is worthy of punishment.
The tech sucked in real-world conditions
Nice work.

But on page 43 "quadratic" is misspelled.
The real issue here is the struture of the US healthcare system, which massively penalizes the provision of healthcare as part of any plan besides benefits from a job.

We should have either a heavily government-subsidized user-pay system like Japan, or a real open market without the absurd straitjacket or US healthcare market regulations. With needs-based welfare in both cases.

If the medical part of the economy wasn't so ridiculously wrongly regulated, it wouldn't be so distorting the rather academic difference between "contractor" and "employee".
What resources or tools have helped in your journey?
Is that 17.5$ also include additional wear-and-tear on capital assets, e.g., your car? I spent years desperately poor, and having a very good idea of capital asset depreciation was critical to maintaining my weekly budget. For instance, my very cheap car, in the early 2000s, cost about 4.5$/hour-of-operation — and only because it was used as a shop car by mechanics who did all the maintenance for free. My current vehicle (a Kia Optima) is right at about 6$/hour to operate; although I’m “at the bottom of the tub” in terms of operating costs. In the next few years I expect that cost to increase to 7$/hour.
The Tragedy of the Common Lisp
I believe these protections are related to voice specifically, from what I recall. The law on record has to do specifically with voice data and excludes textual forms of data.

If you were voice chatting over Facebook they would probably have to make you aware if they were listening/processing the data for words. By make you aware, it probably means bury it in the ToS on page 784 in a generic and ambiguous way and that is sufficient for court should someone litigate.

Now when you start looking at voice assistants like Alexa, GA, etc. the waters could get muddier.
I used to rely on Github + Cloudflare, but now services like netlify.com are a a simpler/better alternative.

EG netlify gives you a Docker based build environment + CDN, all you need is a a Github/lab repo with a config file.
See also June Lindsey:

* https://www.cbc.ca/radio/meet-the-96-year-old-ottawa-woman-w...
EDIT: What good can come out of topics like this? Where else do people talk about this with their peers?

Could we discuss the dilemma of a Authoritarian Regime that could save the world from Freedom's environmental destruction?

I know this is a very loaded topic, but sharing ideas are good.

The only reason I can see government/regulation/control being a good thing, is centralized decision making can preserve our genes for future generations rather than Individuals acting independently in their own interests until a Tragedy of the Commons even occurs and humans go extinct like 99.9% of life on earth.

As a note, I'm a pretty staunch libertarian, but I am reasonable and wanted to hear this discussed.

Is a 'China-like' control for a better future a good idea?
Yes, but the question is, why are these metrics chosen in a way that incentivizes BBC News reporters to follow exactly the same kind of sensationalist stories as for-profit news sources?
Honestly, this makes a lot of sense. Key sentence:

> It also means being able to add other Alexa-controlled devices, like speakers, smart plugs and lights, more easily.

A lot of my friends who live in newly constructed buildings have speakers built-in to their apartments. In small NYC apartments, honestly it makes sense to speakers built into walls/ceilings to save space and control from your phone with Bluetooth. It's a genuinely nice amenity.

I know so many people with Alexa anyways that it makes sense for them to have it integrated. And if it's an extra option to control the lighting, even better.

Obviously if you have privacy concerns you can just keep it turned off or ask maintenance to unplug its ethernet. (You still have physical lightswitches, nothing essential will break.) And nothing's preventing you from using your own speaker/Google Home/etc. instead on your counter.

But from an apartment amenities standpoint... this is pretty convenient. And like I said, you can always unplug its internet. It's an option, not something being forced on you.
For comments you can embed an external service, like Disqus.
But most of the examples in 'fulafel's comment already don't require recompiling for a new architecture. Node, ruby, Python, JVM languages... You just need a runtime for the desired architecture, which is still true for WASM.

(As a sidenote, POWER has supported either endianness for a while, and ~everyone runs Linux in little-endian mode.)

Given that the point of cgo more or less is to enable calling into C code, don't you still need to do a lot to make that work in WASM? Like cross-compile all your C dependencies to WASM, then use cgo to interface between the go things and the c things within the WASM runtime?

Pretty interesting ideas and I'm interested to see how it plays out, but tbh I think I'm too old school for all this newfangled stuff and would just use qemu.
> I can’t get a discount on cellular because I’m a FiOS customer

https://www.verizonwireless.com/promos/verizon-fios-installa...

> nor can I buy car insurance from my health insurance company.

https://www.statefarm.com/insurance/health/individual-medica...

and bundling deals: https://www.statefarm.com/insurance/multiline
This. I will never understand why people opt in to their own surveillance. I typically don't rent but if I bought a home that had this type of spy gear in it, it would be quickly made inoperable. When I sold it, I'd market it as "privacy oriented" and point to the drill holes as upgrades.
That's a good question, but I don't know that I have a good answer.

First, I would define "what is needed" as reducing the level of human impact on the ecosystem to a sustainable level. Implicit in this is that I think our current impact is ecologically unsustainable. Second, I don't think an approach that puts all the emphasis on "carbon" is appropriate. A system that narrowly focuses on canceling the negative effects of CO2 might be a necessary component, but is not sufficient.

I think a real solution requires large scale behavioral change that starts now. I don't trust that any "solution" that involves carrying on more or less as we currently are plus the addition of a small tithe for conservation efforts is workable. If we want progress, we need to actually cut back on on our consumption, rather than offsetting it with good intentions.

I may be overly pessimistic, but my current belief is that it won't be possible to have a sustainable earth with our current levels of population and the current first-world standard of living. Technology might eventually get us there, but not on the timescale we need. Since the world as a whole is unlikely to voluntarily accept such as step backward, I think it's likely that the next 100 years will involve a lot of strife and suffering when the reductions occur involuntarily. While we may not be able to completely avoid this outcome, our goal should be to minimize the trauma and depth of the disaster.

On a more optimistic note, I'd suggest that in the meantime we can support reforestation efforts on their own merits without suggesting that they are also a cure-all for the rest of our ecological ills.
Seconded.

The problem is the guy who neither understands X or Y but just has to answer your question.

No mister, I don't care about Z. And I don't have the time to explain the problem in simple words to you. Either give me answer on X or stay out of this thread.
Calling my upcoming linode-digitalocean-vultr setup Project Warhead, thank you
It's not truly forgotten when there's this much effort to try to forget it, that applies to both Tiananmen and the genocide. I remain (perhaps foolishly) optimistic that these movements to gain recognition for events and fight for democracy are strong enough that when one of these governments finally falters in their fight, even for a second, they'll be able to come back in full force
I sure hope it says something about me. And just for the record, IT is this terrible cesspit of reinvented wheels by hordes, so yeah, hordes are not right. Never will be.
Google's success was due to marketing and the opportunity to do so at massive scale (wide reach of and frequent media coverage). Even PageRank's mention was marketing, though the world at large had no idea what it meant.

Most latched on to Google due to marketing surrounding and due to their IPO. Many heard and understood: money, billions, billionaire, slides and bicycles, etc.

After, continued marketing kept it all going. Powerful illusion. Google is the embodiment of candy coated BS. Even now, they mainly continue due to continually marketing themselves as greatness..

..and paying for Chrome, Android, and first placement on iPhones.

They even had internal studies showing that while they are pervasive (most use at least one of their products), there isn't any stickiness. That is, if some other search engine had first placement on iPhones, the majority would be using that one. It's like the site that previously appeared when searching for a definition (dictionary.com?): while many used it and did so frequently, they often didn't even realize where they were.

The world (and internet, even) at large is very different from the handful who think themselves aligned with the masses (ie, source of revenue). It's even funnier, as most thinking anyone cared about PageRank don't buy anything. No spending = you don't exist. Anything else is a coincidental nod, stupidity, or coincidence.
> The size of the connector, reversible nature

The non-reversible nature of USB A connectors drives me crazy - is it only me that ends up turning them and failing at least 3 times before they slot in?!
Agree! And I'm sure it's also another script to add to the templates, at the footer of a post template, probably?
> Account suspended. Twitter suspends accounts that violate the Twitter Rules.

The vaguest possible reason. The only way this censorship could be more cowardly, is if the account was shown as missing. Or if it was shadow-banned, or pushed down in search rankings.

Worse than censorship, is hiding that censorship took place, and why it took place.
I know that. It's been that way for years. His lecturing was really upsetting.
That makes sense. In browsers there are already restrictions around audio/video autoplay, as an example, and an application needs logic around waiting for user permission. So I can imagine something similar, where the default timer could be coarse, and high-resolution timing would require elevated privileges.

Anyway, thank you for the notes/slides about WebAssembly on the server, fascinating stuff with a bright future!
There is a lot that can be learned by practicing one skilled trade and applying it to another. If you develop software but have not taken the opportunity to build physical things - there is so much to learn.
Same here, though I like the connectivity because it lets me do things like turn the heating or AC on remotely if I’m heading home at an unusual time. Otherwise, I get no real benefit from it being connected.
This should not hold.

Facebook has been running huge ads all over media and streets with "your privacy choices" and "we protect your privacy" to salvage some of their reputation.

If they do this, and then at the same time claim there is no privacy on their platform, any judge who does not throw this out would be really dumb.

Right?
There are a few other options (kubelet doesn't support lxc directly) available for the container runtimes in kubernetes. Not everything will run on a raspberry pi (because of ARM), but here's a list: https://kubedex.com/kubernetes-container-runtimes/
> new chips will address [these vulnerabilities]

It doesn't seem likely. The chipmakers will fix the vulnerabilities that break isolation between processes and between user-kernel, but the within-process issues will probably stick around.
Parental love and fear to disappoint parents in a force that drives child to internalize values and to prioritize them. What that values are depends on parents, it could be compassion, love, greed, competitiveness, hard work, intelligence, beauty, knowledge, it could be anything. It is good because it is the only known way to a person to form. It is a way for parents to pass their values to a child. Child seeks love from his/her parents and avoids rejection, using any tools he/she have. Then tools become values and motives and get an ability to drive behavior by themselves, even without any parent nearby.

But the trouble is, if between those values there are personal traits that cannot be possible altered by a child, then he/she is trapped. If parent constantly shown to a girl that he loves her when she is pretty and rejects her when he is not so pretty, and then she compared herself with models and found that she is not so pretty as them, than she would be unable to meet standards of her parent without a plastic surgery. If parent shown signs of rejection to his child (just a visible disappointment might be enough) when he failed to be smart enough, than child face a risk to grow not smart enough to meet standards of his parent, and he would have no way to meet them: he couldn't be smarter than he is.

Love of parents should be unconditional. It solves the most of problems of such a kind. But if you wish to praise your child, praise for something that is really an achievement, for something that is under control of a child, not for something that he got from a birth and couldn't control. Not for intelligence, but for a hard work. Not for beauty, but for... I don't know... for love, compassion or care.

From a behaviorist point of view, when you praise your child for something that not under his control, you are replicating a famous Skinner's experiment with a random reinforcement[1]. If you are punishing child (for example, showing signs of disappointment) for his failure to be smart (i.e. for the reasons that were not under his control), then you'd replicate learned helplessness[2]. In reality it is more complicated, because child would face as rewards so punishments, but in a short it would make no good for a child.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23377456_Superstiti...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
A Glass Battery That Keeps Getting Better
Why would minukube need a VM??
I've just added Stratolaunch plane to the scheme with other giant planes so that it is easier to compare, see:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giant_planes_compari...
Medium styled WordPress theme for your blog
The most amusing variant of the XY problem is when you want a seemingly ridiculous Y, and then, when people inevitably ask why, you tell them about your entirely-novel X, which they still don’t understand the use for, so you have to explain the entirely-novel W that motivates X, and so on... and by the time you’re done, you’ve explained your whole business model, written a ten-page journal paper, and completely killed the conversation—because they don’t feel they have the prerequisite knowledge to talk about A-through-X, so you just get a “good luck with that, buddy.”

Even though Y was a concrete problem that they do have domain experience in solving!

I call this “going up the rabbit hole.”

——

Example (deliberately shortened from its real depth):

• I’m trying to invent a novel algorithm for inter-procedural data-flow analysis, because none of the existing ones work for me.

• Why? Because I’m trying to reverse a stack machine bytecode with only indirect jumps and no reified CALL/RET opcodes, into a structured inter-procedural control-flow-graph.

• Why? Because I want to do program-slicing to recover HLL representations of key-value-store writes that the program does.

• Why? Because I want to use them as hints for my runtime execution tracer for said bytecode, so it can emit better traces.

• Why? Because I want to put those traces into an OLAP database and I want the data in the DB to be typed.

• Why? Because these traces are the only canonical representation of the state of the system, and our business model is allowing auditors to figure out what’s going on with the system.