skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What sites aren't badly broken? I just spent 30 minutes wrestling with Booking.com. I have many issues with Amazon, and Google keep changing their services under my feet.

Not to mention all the ways they want to shape the experience that I don't want, with their useless and biased suggestions being one that sticks out for me, as well as their user communities that I'm pretty sure exist to denigrate individual perspectives, since they aren't designed to let people organize and be critical, just a noisy crowd with grossly aggregated ratings.

But these big companies don't care. They dominate in their areas. Their best, only reasonable option is to drag their feet on consumer oriented features as much as possible, to save money and spread out behind the scenes. If a competitor comes along with a unique feature, they can just add it and destroy them. It's impossible for the consumer and innovation.

As we go to very high levels of integration, where our activities, connections and other personal data are involved in every decision, the only solution is to separate data and services, so I can access the data I want, process it in my own system that for any activity can be more comprehensive than they can reasonably provide — unless they all, either via backend "cooperation" or duplication have an incredibly privacy invading profile of me — and finally process it with their service. This is what Solid proposes. It's a long-term, multi perspective, standards based project, and I don't know any reasonable alternative.
There's a good game called Lazer Maze (by ThinkFun) that is related, it concerns shining a directional Lazer though.
When I lived in columbus there were already new build 1brs asking for north of 1.3k a month and the housinf market is inflating. Developers have seen blood in the water and cost of living will rise accordingly if people with high salaries continue to move into the city.
The problem with Goodreads’ search is definitely that it mostly only works with full titles. It’s aggravating to have to type in the full title of a popular book for it to have to be the top result; it seems like a really basic search implementation.
As someone who's used several outliners, this looks like a neat tool.

I'm curious why you decided to call this a "mind-mapping tool", which makes me think of visual graphs rather than textual hierarchies. Can you talk about that decision?
The Fast Food Industry Is Ripe for Job Automation
What an absolutely fantastic long read. I would have loved to read that biography :(
The first kid, with the Spider-Man bedspread, 11 dinosaurs on the floor, and five dragons on the wall baffles me.

The dragons are two Terrible Terrors, a Deadly Nadder, a Gronkle, and a Monstrous Nightmare. How can you put up pictures of assorted dragons and not include a Night Fury?
Went remote. Bought a house back near my family. Mortgage is nearly a quarter the cost of my one bedroom in Seattle. I'll miss Seattle, for sure, but at least now I don't have to hustle so hard. Especially with a kid on the way.
> Would you feel comfortable developing a relationship with someone involved in a high-profile sex crimes case that had tremendous amounts of damning evidence?

If that relationship consisted of them anonymously giving me money, and me giving them nothing in return, then maybe?

Maybe I’m missing something, but how did Epstein benefit from this anonymous relationship with the MIT Media Lab?
I love ipfs. Can this actually be ddos’d as well?
I haven't actually browsed medium in a while, so I didn't know how bad it was.

I do know that most stories I am linked to on there are barely a single paragraph of meat
Doesn't nasal spray directly get into blood through the nose blood vessels? Think about sniffing cocaine.
they can just add it
and destroy them

Or buy them out and sunset them
Where did you read this? I am curious...
> Programming isn't that hard if you just do it right.

That's not a tautology. In fact, it's actually worth pointing out, especially to junior engineers who get frustrated by how hard everything is, that it actually doesn't need to be that hard if you, well, do it right. Obviously that's not productive feedback without actually helping them be better, but it's far from a tautology.

For anyone wondering, a tautology is a statement that is logically true by construction, rather than contingently true because of the way the world is. For example, "Programming isn't that hard if it's easy" would be a tautology. Constructing a counterexample by changing programming to something else shows that this was not a tautology to begin with: "Sending a man to the moon isn't that hard if you just do it right," which is obviously false, because even if you do it right that's objectively difficult.

Programming is hard, but we make it much harder than it has to be by doing it spectacularly wrong in many ways, both individually and collectively.
As did Azure, quite some time ago. Many docs articles say go to the azure portal and open the web console to continue this set of instructions
You're not wrong about the suburbs in the valley being expensive; that said, downtown mountain view is a very walkable 'city', and is just a couple of miles from one of the region's largest employers (Google).

In general, it's expensive all up and down the peninsula specifically, because there's not all that much land, not much multi-unit housing, etc.
Sure but colonization has pretty much always brought modernization with it: Roman, Mongol, Ottoman, Spanish, etc.

But on the flip side, often times the local pop suffers great losses.
I think that's what he means when he says modernize. As in "modernize". Seems entirely intentional to me on several levels. I'm sure the Chinese do see it as modernizing, even if the reality is much more despicable.
I opened this question up for broader discussion (and so its searchable) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20904857 You may want to post this fantastic reply there so others can find it better in the future.
Booking.com is exponentially better than Airbnb though.
How is Portland doing for you? I am moving there in a few days
I'm in Canada and when I worked at a casino doing some overnight moves. The guy I was working with a Czech who said he has worked worked in Graz, Nice, Paris, Monaco, Barcelona.

We had a break for lunch at 3am and of course almost nothing was open at that time. He was shocked there were no small cafes to pick up a fresh croissant or sandwich. He said especially in France cafes are on every corner and open early (although maybe not 3am).
if we go this way we might assume they thought java and javascript are the same
Your parent comment is stating the reverse. That there is no web console only features.
I've used Docker Compose and Swarm for small-scale stuff too - it's really easy to work with, doesn't use much CPU for management (something k8s os/was notorious for - not sute if that's still valid?), the docs are pretty good, and there are a gazillion YAML templates on GitHub to use as a reference.

Compose and Swarm can take you pretty far, but TBH, it felt like Docker gave up on them years ago, even before k8s "won" the container orchestration war. A real shame :(
Thread from 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19513222

and a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17906113

We waived the usual dupe criteria (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) since people like this project so much, and it hasn't had so much attention relative to its (and HN's) history.
Demanding enough that I’d kill it before doing any gaming to get a small boost in FPS, but otherwise, when you aren’t interacting with it I think cpu usage was something like 3% on my i5 processor. When you’re moving around the view and such though, it does use a significant amount of cpu.
I wouldn’t expect a site to have a publicly available status page or anything like public grafana boards. Isn’t that what HTTP error codes are for?

Can you share examples of where this is common?
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Tesla Model 3 Becomes UK’s Third Best Selling Car in August
I'm honestly surprised there was only one team in charge of UX for the AWS gui.

It always felt like each product did their own UX because of all the various inconsistency between different areas. I don't have any examples off-hand, but anyone who's used it would probably agree with me.

For the record, I think the AWS GUI is sufficient, but not very good. If you login to GCP, see that feedback button in the upper right on each page? Product managers have emailed me back asking for more information, or explaining features when I've used that feedback button.
Link for those without the Economist:

https://www.intelligentgrowthsolutions.com/the-economist-gro...
I think I used to experience something like this too. But I was also overweight. In the last few years I got myself used to a smaller portion and the weight just kind slid off, and I am now at a different baseline. That was my experience, not claiming any of that to be universal.
Please read the article before you comment on it.
Reinforcement Learning to solve Rubik’s cube (and other complex problems)
I don't see why you'd come up with something that so misaligns the interests of everyone except Comcast :)

We don't need to be priced by the bandwidth, we just need better accessibility to metering. Something my mother could look at and say "huh, the toaster's sent 8gb of data today..."
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2F92orIEO8

So, given the talk, is the industry finally realizing what Mozilla, Cloudflare and Google are trying to pull off with DoH? I guess this is why the change of hearts from them and letting people block DoH within entire networks, hoping not to attract attention of how much control they want to take away.
Linking brains to computers: how new implants are helping us achieve this goal
As an interstellar species, will we still play the violin?
Ask HN: Best way to sync internet TV across multiple TV's?
Sorry, but I had to back up and re-read this. I guess I just assumed you were exposed to second-hand vapor, so I was very sympathetic to your plight (and quite shocked that you could detect the change in second-hand vapor!) until I got to "I completely gave up on vaping". My mis-reading of the post actually had me laughing out loud.
As a North American (Portland, OR) I can tell you me and all my friends and family kids of the 1970's had swords, shields, and guns. My uncle even made me, out of wood, a very authentic WW II M1 rifle and a .50 cal machine gun with tripod so we could play war more accurately in our numerous foxholes we'd dug around the farm. I loved those toys. I still have my childhood plywood shield. It's barely holding together.

None of those friends and family own guns (or swords, heh) as adults. I've never even fired a pistol in real life. We all skew fairly left and would favor a lot more gun control. I'm a supporter of the military and our troops, but I worry about us sending them all over the place for who knows what end. It takes a heavy toll on us and them.

I honestly don't think having weapons as toys has much affect on you as an adult. It's all fun and games until you're old enough to learn some history and actually comprehend the horrors of war, and then you can only look back fondly on those innocent days.
What is deep learning and how does it work?
In my experience there are strain guages installed all over the air frame for testing and for operation, so the strain history of the frame can be reviewed.

The thing to keep in mind, is the different goals in testing engineered products like this.

there is a thing called Mean Time Before Failure [MTBF]
that usually involves sampling of a number of units to arrive at a maintenance and replacement interval.

there is also a need to find the maximim service limits of a product, for example the swash plates and rotor linkage of a helicopter has a threshhold requiring at instance replacement. so for example, if you shook the yoke of a heli quickly left and right beyond a point you will probably knock yourself out of the air, but you will also induce damage requireing immediate replacement.

and then, there is what happened with the airframe of topic.
immediate catastrophe during testing. I suspect this wasnt the immediate goal, as the engineers projected it would hold up, and were suprised, luckily not injured.

then the last thing that is usually a pre-production test, is an intentional induction of failure. you have a good idea when its going to break, and you take it there and beyond to gawp at the failure mode and the pieces, and re- engineer it until catastrophe is far beyond extreme duty conditions.[ideally]
I'm glad that it spoke to you! Yeah I wrote it when I was 21 and wayward. Thankfully shortly thereafter I found that a strict regimen of programming, lifting weights, exercise, math, statistics etc gave me more than enough meaning to occupy my time and interest, at which point drugs got boring. Hence why I'm on hacker news :)
The entire premise of the App Store, permissions and sandboxing is that users should be able to download anything from the App Store willy nilly and know that it won’t do the same type of invasive crap that can happen on Windows and Macs.

The App Store is not a flea market. Podcasts can’t install malware, eat battery life, invade privacy, etc.

I’m very careful about what I install on my personal computers. I install all sorts of crap on my iOS devices with some type of assurance about knowing what they can and can’t do.
Apple has already publicly said in court filings, and under threat of perjury, that they don't make any exceptions for China.

From Apple's filing [1]:

>Finally, the government attempts to disclaim the obvious international implications of its demand, asserting that any pressure to hand over the same software to foreign agents “flows from [Apple’s] decision to do business in foreign countries . . . .” Opp. 26. Contrary to the government’s misleading statistics (Opp. 26), which had to do with lawful process and did not compel the creation of software that undermines the security of its users, Apple has never built a back door of any kind into iOS, or otherwise made data stored on the iPhone or in iCloud more technically accessible to any country’s government. See Dkt. 16-28 [Apple Inc., Privacy, Gov’t Info. Requests]; Federighi Decl. ¶¶ 6–7. The government is wrong in asserting that Apple made “special accommodations” for China (Opp. 26), as Apple uses the same security protocols everywhere in the world and follows the same standards for responding to law enforcement requests. See Federighi Decl. ¶ 5.

and a declaration from Craig Federighi personally [2]:

>Apple uses the same security protocols everywhere in the world.

>Apple has never made user data, whether stored on the iPhone or in iCloud, more technologically accessible to any country's government. We believe any such access is too dangerous to allow. Apple has also not provided any government with its proprietary iOS source code. While governmental agencies in various countries, including the United States, perform regulatory reviews of new iPhone releases, all that Apple provides in those circumstances is an unmodified iPhone device.

>It is my understanding that Apple has never worked with any government agency from any country to create a "backdoor" in any of our products and services.

>I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the foregoing is true and correct.

When China wants something from iCloud they do it the same way that law enforcement does it everywhere in the world, which is through Apple.

[1] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2762131/C-D-Cal-1...

[2] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2762118-Federighi-De...
Theoretically, because his legacy gets linked to prestigious research rather than trafficking children and pedophilia. I'm not sure how you would weight that downside, but Rockerfeller isn't remembered for the Ludlow Massacre (usually).
What kind of role were you in at Wikimedia if you don't mind answering?
An aspect of this that seems under-reported is that the head of an academic institution, where one of the main job responsibilities is fundraising, was also soliciting investments in his personal investment funds from the same donors.

How is that not a giant conflict of interest?
Should be measured yearly not by month, to be honest

But good for them
Eventually a long time from now, yes. But it will be a long time before everyone has a browser that is safe by default.
After playing with it a bit more, refreshing comments seems to be iffy. I had this specific thread open when there were only 6 or 7 comments, and tried hitting Refresh repeatedly later when there were about 10 comments visible in my desktop browser. None of the new comments showed up, even when I backed out to the threads list. I think they only appeared after I did a complete refresh of the threads list and reopened this thread.

Overall, though, it's pretty good and I want to switch over - just feels like it needs a bit more polish first.
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Why Use Web-Scraping and Web-Scraping Tools
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Could it be that there is a moneyed interest in keeping things undiscovered?
That is doubtful. Consider scale. While there are a few dozen really densely packed cities, there are a couple orders of magnitude more small cities. There simply aren't enough people to 'fill up' the small cities in the US. There will of course always be regional places that are more in-demand than others, but overall it's like moving from a puddle to the ocean. It's just not going to make a dent.
I see what you mean, though I'm not sure of all the details, you might want to get into an equatorial orbit (there is an orbiter, though I'm not sure about its orbit) just because the error margin is smaller (?) or for some other reason.

(But then of course the moon is neither too far nor too big so I might just be barking at the wrong tree here)
I agree with the “mind map” terminology. The defining feature of a mind map is that it is a visual process displayed as a diagram with colors, icons, etc. Without those things specifically, you have an outliner.

This looks like a neat outliner, but it is not a mind mapping tool.
Another way to put this is, "OR Union wants to reduce available work for self-checkout maintenance workers."
And do you have a point? I corrected a factual error.
This is a really naive analysis of the story. Dirty money is bad because you are letting the donor redeem his public image via your institution.
But... the donations were anonymous, right?
You need to actually review the facts of the case. The reason this blew open again is entirely because the settlement acosta offered was judged illegal. They concealed the deal from the victims' legal staff.

You, pointing to this corrupt deal as evidence of exoneration, makes very clear what your goals here are. Revolting.
"Considering HTML a programming language..."

Computerphile (popular computing channel on YouTube) made a video on whether HTML is a programming language or not. The professor in the video ((David Brailsford) argues yes (a restrictive declarative language). The commenters mostly disagree:

HTML IS a Programming Language (Imperative vs Declarative):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A2mWqLUpzw
> Ignoring the reality

Leaving everything to the mercy of international markets is not an inherent feature of reality. Many countries had, and have, limits on foreign ownership of real-estate (and media), as well as reduced taxes on people's main residences, and this can make houses more valuable as homes than financial instruments. They are not 'ignoring reality' by adopting these policies.
I live in SF, which many would consider a big city, but I’ve come to realize that I actually do enjoy living in a big city, it’s just that in the US in particular big city living means a big cost of living premium.

There’s dozens of big metropolitan cities outside the US that have better public transportation systems, lower rents, lower food costs, etc. that the analogous big city in the US, namely SF, LA, and NYC. I’m beginning to realize that the best way to continue living in a big city but lower my monthly expenses would be to move abroad.
The usual expression in native English is:

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

The expression "glass ceiling" refers to a barrier to advancement, often by particular classes of individuals. This barrier is often invisible, denied, or simply not recognised by some people.
Can just speak for Norway; There are few (if any) essay mills I can think of, but then again I haven't used them.

The biggest hurdle over here seems to be get accepted to your study or college of choice - because as our system is, the only thing that counts during admission are your grades from HS or Undergrad. We have no interviews, essays, entrance exams, etc. only your GPA.

And on top of your GPA, some studies require a certain grade in specific classes. For example, to get admitted to the top Engineering school, you'd need a 3.0 in AP Math classes from HS (well, translated to American equivalent).

I'm still active on some homework forums, and I've been contacted quite a few times by posters that want to pay me for doing their homework, and even exams, because they needed to pass a minimum grade.

And in college / universities, there's an equivalent to the US "frat files" system, where senior students hand down previous HW and exam solutions to junior students.
And these same folks continue gaming the system once employed by these banks. Go figure.
I had the exact opposite experience, and we ran our entire company off of Azure for 3 years without any issues.

The only complaint I had was when I needed to rapidly get like 15 N-Series GPU instances and it took like two months. At the time they were new so weren't allocating them as quickly as they do now. Amazon was way faster for us to get GPUs running on - but this was over two years ago now so I'm not sure if that's still the case.
ALExA: Automatic Listening Exploitation Act. $40k Fine for Violations
>On the other hand, Japan, South Korea, China and Asian tigers have done well without being open and diverse.

They all make money by selling to the USA.
HTTP status codes tell you that something is broken, but likely not details. Or nothing at all, if all you get is a timeout because the service just got DDoSed.

Many services and sites have them, a few random examples:

https://status.flickr.net/

https://www.vimeostatus.com/

https://3down.mit.edu/

https://www.githubstatus.com/
Elasticsearch is a great example of a modern monolithic application
The moon is tidally locked to earth, meaning it rotates at such a speed that the same side is always facing earth. (This is also why the moon can have a "dark side")

It usually takes millions of years of tidal forces from a planetary body acting upon its satellite for the latter to be tidally locked to the former.
Why put in more money, when the money we put in already is so inefficiently spent? Let the MTA prove they can be a good steward and then I’d be all for spending more on them as needed.
That's a piece of it, but if it were just blackmail Epstein wouldn't have a fraction of the connections he actually did.

The whole thing makes more sense if you assume Epstein wasn't truly in charge of anything. He was the manager, not the owner. It's a pretty safe bet that few if any of the blackmail tapes will ever surface, partly because of this.
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the answer used to be: yes, there's always a case for skepticism and critical analysis of a scientific topic

but in today's enlightened discussion climate one must also consider the magnitude of the shit-storm of personal attacks one will face before voicing that skepticism. you even have to consider that before you make a comment like this one.