skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the other hand, it's great at avoiding the "dying alone with your cats" failure mode.

For a woman? You really think so? My impression has been that unstable relationships tend to make stable pair bonds far less likely in the future (for men too, but not quite as starkly). Further, women have a much easier time forming lifelong bonds in their 20s and early 30s than in their 40s and 50s (men too, but the effect is not as stark).

In fact, I'd even go so far as to say that if someone really wanted to maximize their chances of dying alone, unstable sexual relationships throughout their peak reproductive years is by far the best method.
Interesting project. I question the implications of using ML data shaping to define models. A sufficiently optimized model may be missing fundamental inputs & constraints, yet still perform better than a less optimized model with the correct inputs & constraints. This would effectively create a local maxima of understanding. It seems, while the predictive capabilities of complex systems may increase in some cases, the practice of fundamental understanding & articulation of the system will decrease (i.e. I don't know how it works, the magic black box has all the answers).

Perhaps there are ways to mitigate these implications in the scientific process.
This is so great, thank you Daniel. This changes everything.

Next up, org-web-agenda?

Edit: Already a feature. I love it.
Firefox's Incognito mode hasn't had this problem. This was likely a feature, considering Google also benefited from it:

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-google-quietly-trac...
The goal is to use less skilled labor?

I can't help but to think back on my experiences, that's going to make a terrible program.
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Plenty of people have cited overzealous prosecution, which is awful but fortunately rare. The more likely risk is that the image could be redistributed without your permission, either in the form of "revenge porn" or from someone taking your phone and copying the image (think during an electronic border search, or the more banal case of lending your phone to someone else and they see something they shouldn't have.) If those images get out, you're in a situation where your nudes are floating around the internet forever.
It has nothing to do with being the "tall poppy". It has something to do with the public image of the company. Microsoft has created a massive amount of goodwill by doing incredible things for communities. Apple on the other hand is doing one fail after the other and isn't listening to customers.

That's why Apple gets the hate.
And vote in the democratic primaries for politicians that don't take a moderate position on the issue. cough cough, Joe Biden is a moderate, cough cough
I just tried it. Simple and easy!
Pwned Passwords is detailed towards the bottom of the API page - https://haveibeenpwned.com/API/v3
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Researchers report the function of reverse-twisting DNA
Why would you do that when you can automate it?
> Until then you should talk to your own politicians why they aren't doing anything.

I would love to. But unfortunately the climate problem isn't even a small part of the political dialogue here.
I’m more concerned about the lack of transparency and where the proceeds from selling off a public resource are going.
I still don't get how that answers the question. If I have enough RAM for both the "hardly ever used" pages and the "more frequently used" pages then what good is the swap doing me?

The only way that makes sense is if there is some cache the kernel has which is faster than RAM. BUT the kernel cannot move things between this cache and RAM, it can only treat the cache + RAM as a single blob, so to free up space in the cache the kernel has to move pages to disk. So by having some swap space the kernel can move hardly ever used pages to disk which is the only way to free up space in this cache.

It's possible that what I just described really exists, I don't know that much about the internals of how the kernel manages memory. But if that is what's happening then THAT is the detail that would have been useful in this post.
I was hoping they hacked a drone, flew it towards their ship for plausible deniability, and shot it down as some sort of quid-pro-quo.

Although Iran is probably flying enough of them aggressively towards American ships where they can just take their pick.
Redundancy helps with uncorrelated failures, but if you start getting requests that cause memory pressure and OOM kills, you could lose the entire cluster. I agree that swap is often too slow to help, but "self-destruct and hope the rest of the cluster is healthy right now" is not a good failure mode. Don't overcommit in prod.
I don't think that we are there. There are no laws to circumvent the bans and in fact a lot of users are using VPNs. The only measures our government is doing is technical ones: ban websites, install DPI, now they apparently plan to MITM on some (or all) connections. But I've never heard about anyone convinced of circumventing those measures. In fact I'm not aware that any similar law exists.

We could be there one day. But now the fight is purely technical. I'm, personally, going to set up dedicated server on online.net and setup proper and fast VPN for all my relatives and friends. I hope that other people would do the same.
Not sure who the target audience is, but I found this as I needed clarification myself.
https://www.storyblok.com/tp/headless-cms-explained
Even if that were true, presumably people eat more in a week than one type of bean for every meal.

You're basically suggesting that people need to vary their diet with at least two things instead of one thing. I don't know anyone who struggles with that except maybe poor uni kids where eating beans would likely be an upgrade to their normal cuisine.
>The story discussed here applies only to the extremely wealthy, and such people don't deserve any pity for having to contribute back to the society that allowed them to accumulate such wealth.

Nobody here is crying for rich people having to pay taxes on assets with a value that can actually be realized - this is a question of fairness and logical consistency. At exactly what level of wealth are you arguing that the government should be able to make logically inconsistent determinations about how much you owe them?

>If someone is in a situation where their property's valuation cannot be evaluated by the sale of similar objects on the market, then they are without exception able to afford to pay the taxes on it.

If anything this article proves that the exact opposite is possible. If I owned "Canyon" - which I can't sell - and my remaining assets are valued lower than the tax on "Canyon" based on the initial IRS assessment, then I couldn't afford to pay the taxes on it.
That's a lot of work and a strong opinion for having never tried it, lol.
I might not have been clear; it's for nontechnical people to manage data in a database. For example, writers on a blog site.

Edit: The original version of my comment which this poster was replying to, said something along the lines of "a GUI that lets nontechnical people manage a database", which was ambiguous.
I think that unplugging may not be enough, we need to smash the systems that disallow people from unplugging. My partial unplugging may let me feel slightly less guilty, but on the absolute scale it does nothing at all to help the climate. I can wash my hands a bit morally, but the world is none the better for it. So what have I done, really? Not much. The people who have done something are the people who have made solar super cheap, who have mode wind super cheap, those that are building the battery technology that will help get to a carbonless grid, and the politicians that have enabled the tech growth through tax subsidies. My personal contribution is nothing, and it makes me sad.

Our electrical grid is slightly behind pace for decarbonization, but nowhere near as far behind as all the rest of society.

The bad part of society that has my greatest attention lately is single family zoning; this necessitates massive energy use, massive car use, and disallows anybody from creating a low-energy alternative that has all the amenities that people need in order to live. Single family zoning should be illegal. Nobody should be prevented from building an apartment building next to a small grocery store. Big-box stores should be highly restricted, instead of highly restricting apartment buildings.

(apologies for the long rant!)
Org-mode mode is the best way to organize information that i’ve found that also allows me the freedom to chose where I store the information. It’s also, contrary to many services like Keep, quite future proof.
In the situation of dealing with the IRS for any kind of inheritance they have to pay taxes for? Or actually anything they own if it turns out the IRS can simply have it's own estimation of value and taxes based on that?

If the IRS can just blurt out their own evaluation overriding any independent appraiser, even bump it up 300+% between draft and final evaluation, and tax you based on it then yes I do see quite a few people in this situation.

I'll try to assume the best interpretation of what you wanted to say and guess that maybe you didn't think that if the IRS can do this for a $1bn inheritance (than can or cannot be sold) they can also do it for a $100 inheritance. It's the principle of them being allowed to make the authoritative appraisal (not their job) that's the issue here, not that they collect taxes (their job).
ES has far more use than devops - most common usecase ive seen is tagged document searching
There's a GitHub link on the top-right of their home page.
That sounds like a very hostile way to solve the problem of them struggling with something.
What I agree is that these days you should still use swap, but swap should always be either on zram or on zswap if you can't use zram for some reason, have too little ram, can't load zram module or something. Raw swap on disk is just not acceptable anymore for performance, security, wearout reasons.
> It's fun shifting the blame.

I don't think blame is a useful concept at all. The question is, within the complex world of economics and politics, starting from the point we are at today, what would a pragmatic solution look like, that is actually possible?

It is far from obvious that the best solution is to make local sacrifices, then hoping the world will follow. It might be that we all (in the world) need to agree to make sacrifices together first, put some rules and treaties in place, and then start improving together in coordination.

It sounds so Machiavellian but, if we are already making the economic sacrifices (that other countries aren't, but would like us to), I wonder if we aren't even losing potential bargaining power in coordinating globally?
Cities Want 'Digital Twins' to Manage Traffic
I was mostly being facetious. We probably don't have enough time left to build fission power plants (and certainly not fusion) before the level of CO2 in the atmosphere will lead inevitably to catastrophic consequences.

According to the IPCC, we have to cut global CO2 emissions by 50% before 2030. So your vast fleet of nuclear power plants might just barely be coming online by then. Maybe. If you started getting regulatory approval yesterday and nothing goes wrong at all.
No one was doing that?
I don’t agree with that. Regular password rotation increases the opportunity for phishing attacks because people become used to sleep walking through it. And users are generally just adding one or two characters to the password anyway.

Instead, that energy is better spent on requiring strong passwords and people using password managers and two-factor.
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The satanic panic wasn't confined to heavy metal lyrics. The same opportuniatic zealotry also led to misinterpretation of hypnosis in clinical settings which ruined the lives of innocent daycare workers and scrambling the lives of children subjected to the practice.

(and then there's the whole Dungeons and Dragons thing...)
We use ES heavily. Most of our queries are basic document filtering plus some geospatial stuff. We could probably have done it with Postgres/PostGIS, but with AWS manages ES, it's all "good enough" -- we can do geospatial searches on millions of documents with response times around 100ms. The other part I like about ES is how it's easy to scale out across machines, which lets us handle quite a bit of load and tolerate failures easily. We have a cluster of 5 m4.large instances and it only runs us about $600/mo. Like others have said, tuning AWS ES sucks, but it's always been good enough for us.

We've run into some pain points like trying to index very large shapes into a geospatial index, but have workarounds for basically everything now. We also had a problem where when AWS had the outage around autoscaling groups a few months ago, we lost 3/5 of our instances and had to reindex some data from backups. That was the worst thing that's happened.

I'm sure there would be better/faster/cheaper ways of doing what we do, but for what we get out of the box for the price, it's going to take a lot for us to move away from it for now.
That is a list of banned technologies I'd compiled myself, as should be clear from reading the linked comment.
I've always found it rather strange that library silence is considered required for study, but not for programming, which requires equal or more focus.
It's very possible that the majority of Alaskans support the governor's plan.
Or two of them?

http://www.lesdeuxmagots.fr/en/paris-restaurant.html
Half Life Text to Speech
Cool and amazing. This thing should be used to enrich base Julia, not simply be an extension.
This thing that the doer perceives as harmless could be harmful. How will you know it's harmful? Because we arrest you for doing it! That's how you know it's harmful, because of the consequences we impose.
tl;dr is this:

> BRIN indexes are efficient if the ordering of the key values follows the organization of blocks in the storage layer....Keys on generated sequence numbers or created data are best candidates for BRIN index
A big chunk of this problem can be solved by eliminating the oil dividend given to all residents.
Yes but the search market has shifted.

We're at a point where Lucene and family are used for increasingly sophisticated use cases. The commodity end of the market used to be dominated by open source (Solr connected to Drupal for example)

Now for commodity sites there’s so many SaaS search products it doesn’t make as much sense to hook up Solr or ES to make your blog or university website or whatever searchable. A lot of basic search use cases are covered by products where you don’t want to have to hire a team to manage search.

But at the higher end apps with search, customization, especially of doing domain specific relevance at scale, is often a product differentiator (but often not so important or weird you should write your own engine). So this is where these systems thrive...
The people who wrote those laws are in a care home or dead. The people who haven't bothered to update them need to be talked to.
I'm not convinced that 100% renewables will actually create a resilient network
Many cloud customers have regulatory or business requirements that their data be held within particular regions or national boundaries. It should also help somewhat with latency, though in most cases CDN points of presence will be more critical.
Slack Clear-Text Passwords Breached
We're building the most secure calling app you can get. Free, P2P, E2E encrypted
You can absolutely turn it off. I've been running with swap turned off on all of my desktop systems (Linux, Unix and Windows), and some servers, for over 20 years.

The theoretical worst case scenario is that the system hits an OOM situation and you end up with data/filesystem corruption... I have not had this occur due to swap being turned off this century.[1] The typical worst case scenario is that either due to a runaway process or accidentally overloading the system for a indefinite period of time, the system goes completely unresponsive so you have to perform a hard reboot. This happens to me 1-2 times a year but I have yet to loose any data (and if it ever does, that's one of the many reasons to have backups) The more common scenario is that a runaway process will OOM briefly, when it can't allocate the memory it needs crash, and everything is back to normal within a couple of seconds.[2]

FWIW, mobile (Android and iOS) devices typically run without swap just fine. IMO, this 'always enable swap' is bad advice and dates from a time when very bad things could and did happen if you OOM'd a system. The marginal performance improvement from freeing up on the order of megabytes (or even tens of megabytes) of RAM on a system with double digit GB's of RAM makes absolutely no sense to me. It makes even less sense on SSD systems where you would be unlikely to notice a chronic swapping situation until you had severely shortened the life of your SSD.

[1] This would be a good reason to not turn off swap on a production database server where it is more likely to be an issue, for example.

[2] One of the dubious advantages to 'modern' programs not handling errors like OOM is that, since they don't check for it, they can't handle when it happens and just crash. This was actually more of a problem in the 90's and earlier when it was more common for applications to handle OOM situations which could actually make the problem worse since they would often hang around waiting for any memory to be freed and use it which resulted in a persistent OOM situation.
Mostly crap that was targeted at users via email. Weird droppers, infected documents, PDFs loaded with some exploit. Lots of stuff that doesn't show up on Virus Total. We see a lot of stuff that attacks unpatched software and there's quite a bit that gets through the email gateway. We see frequent spear phishing scenarios where it's not uncommon for the attacker to email back and forth for a while under some pretext before delivering a malicious payload. Several situations where a party we are communicating with has been breached and the attacker will use them as a jumping off point to get to us - basically a business email compromise scenario where they jump into the middle of a conversation or document transaction with a malicious payload. We patch too, block a lot of connections at the firewall and have other layers, but it's nice when the endpoint protection stops it.
I'm considering using Ghost for a project.

A part as the usual CMS, but also to drive a portion of a mobile app, and in that case its using essentially the headless part.

Since you have used it, any caveats I should be aware?

Thanks.
What about killing on-prem NAS/SAN or sell a high performance on-prem blob store? Every single one sucks and requires a specialized Devops team.

I think the whole premise of files and folders are far from dead, just gotta look from different angles.
Anyone knows why text looks so blurry?

Where are the docs for CanvasKit?
How the Volkswagen Beetle Sparked America’s Art Car Movement
I contrast 1Password, which sent me an email on their opted in Channel telling me about their new Team feature, with Evernote which added a “chat” button and had it constantly pop up along with a request to upgrade to business. Worse, I hide the button in settings and it reappeared at least twice now.

With DropBox, when ever I logged in on the web interface, they would redirect me to a business upgrade landing page, in the best dark pattern tradition it took a bit to figure out how to get back to my folders.
There's no "engagement." It just ends up with banal "I agree" posts that add nothing to the article. And it doesn't add many to them, Polygon's comment sections tend to be tiny and not worth reading, for example. You get better news and engagement on reddit.
> or had our team traded API keys, or security-sensitive matters; or had we controlled mission-critical infrastructure via Slack-powered "bots"

That's why I always strongly recommend having a https://privatebin.info/ . In fact, in every startup I have been, I setup an instance of that forcing "burn after reading" and as a policy all credentials and sensitive info goes there when sharing.
> The author never explained why putting rarely used pages in swap will improve performance if I have adequate RAM.

Putting rarely used (or never to be used again) pages in swap frees up physical RAM to be used as disk cache, which can improve performance for file access. If you have enough RAM to cover all application memory, and cache your entire filesystem, there is no gain to be had.

I agree that slowing down low memory scenarios is silly though. In many cases killing a process is easier to deal with than unexpected poor performance. The slow death of out of memory systems doesn't seem to be unique to having a swapfile though; Linux seems to discard any recoverable pages (such as application / library code backed by files on disc) in the run-up to OOM, resulting in thrashing.

Ideally I'd want to have swap, but automatically kill processes when performance deteriorates due to swapping, rather than when the system is strictly out of memory.
Former NSA contractor Hal Martin sentenced to 9 years for theft of gov info
I'm sorry, WaPo, but this presentation is just so annoying (tiny little snippets of text the fly in and obscure the pictures) that I had to give up. All your work on a fascinating topic wasted.
Which effectively mean that a modern iPhone probably has 100x the computing power of a 10 year old laptop and a 100th of the utility, because it’s based on this limited philosophy.

What a waste.
On reddit's frontpage, the word choices people use for posting/commenting about pets is worthy of some sort of proper study.

They've started to co-opt words typically reserved for human children at a rate that is difficult to believe is some sort of bias on my part. It's bizarre. Pets are surrogate children.
We only email a couple times a year. And we definitely don’t silently update to a new major version. Ping support and link this thread and we can upgrade you free. Sorry for the trouble.