skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a couple for web dev:

* how DNS works and how to configure common record types

* regular expressions - specifically for URL rewriting

* setting up good logging and monitoring

* asking for help earlier
It's an early adopter. There are still a lot of them around. Someone like Roger Ver but who didn't seek fame.
We're a small shop with a lot of "heads down working on stuff" going on. We actually usually know what everyone is doing to some extent. I'm not sure my manager is seriously concerned as much as he wants words to say when someone else asks ;)
There is nothing wrong with captchas.

There is something wrong with the fact that you can't host one as easily as consuming a black box API from Google.
tl;dr: You can inspect the webpage and copy the image source from a private photo. This is no different than just taking a screenshot from the page.

Quality reporting from Buzzfeed news.
I’m not a lawyer, but a lot of these crusades smell like tortious interference[1]. A lot of people just don’t know their rights, but if a third party, which I imagine includes an employee acting in a personal capacity, interferes and causes your AWS contract to be dropped you have a solid cause of action against them. And unlike a lot of activists, Amazon employees may well be worth suing.

And this is a good thing, because reliable contracting is foundational to a developed economy. If you can’t rely on your contracts being honored over arbitrary non stipulated issues then your operation becomes massively less efficient.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference
In other news, you can record your screen and share it with anyone.

This is really not at all shocking. I would be really impressed if they had bothered using some kind of one-time-key for each user who is authorized to see the content, but given that you can just record your screen, or take a screenshot, or, like, literally hold your phone up and show anyone, the idea that there should be something more secure or authenticated in place doesn't make much sense to me.

Do they want to add DRM to Instagram stories? Probably not.
I don't understand this sentiment. Antitrust laws are specifically designed to deal with "indestructible" companies.
Maybe we should get the opinions of parents whose first kid died after being vaccinated.
It did, but that was really just iChat packaged with Messages. They were actually two separate apps, but iChat was hidden within the Messages app. Messages just called iChat whenever you wanted to use Jabber or anything other than iMessage or SMS. They even had different UI with iChat using the older, pre-Mountain Lion (I think) design.
Medicare is only good if you carry a separate policy to cover the 20% copay. It's really not to difficult to run up a 100k copay with one serious illness.
You know what would be 10x as useful as this AND account for survivorship bias? If you did this same format but instead only talking to founders who failed one or even multiple times before eventually getting in. Then they could compare and contrast what they did wrong originally and how they corrected it. That would be much more useful to me, and wouldn't stink of survivorship issues.
I’m I the only one to disagree with the idea that motivation should be individualized? Some people draw more inspiration working towards a team goal rather than personal objectives. Accomplishing something together as a team can provide a much greater sense of satisfaction rather than an individual task.
I second that. So good and clean that I've atually contributed myself.

I personally hate Google including say Wikipedia snippets. Quite often I want to read more of the article, and the link is small and at the bottom of the box, often requiring you to click and arrow to reveal the full box.

If they value Wikipedia and Genius/MusicMatch so much, they should make it much clearer where they got their content from.
If I had to weigh what you are doing here against what Amazon employees are pledging...

I'd have to say what you're doing here is having a few magnitudes of order less impact on climate change.
Captchas would be another technology that might be fall under that "technical barriers" terminology. I don't do much scraping, but I think most of us would enjoy never having to "identify the traffic lights in these photos".
Yes, it appears that too much vitamin D may decrease bone density.
Rich people can afford to insure and rebuild on disaster-prone, but otherwise highly desirable, property.

I lived near a barrier island that would get hit with hurricanes each season, and every 5-10 years a storm would devastate it. Despite that, property owners would rebuild their several million dollar vacation homes exactly where they last stood, but raised just a little higher than the last time.

I don't blame them, it's an amazing spot in the summer.
Amazon: Factory > Warehouse > Delivery Driver > You

B&M Store: Factory > Warehouse > Store > You

Obviously that's generalizing quite a bit, but intuitively it seems that the major difference is the final step. On average a delivery driver is more efficient than you making a trip for just yourself.
Do you have a link to the document?

I never heard of that one can write a new eBPF VM.
Absolutely nothing within a thousand miles of FB can be expected to be private.
“Discuss pros and cons” is not a flame war; attacking people for civilly discussing something is a flame war.
Then by all means you should show Sierra, 350, Sunrise, ER, and all of the other folks out there how to do it better.

I mean this sincerely: I’ve been deeply involved in political and civic activism for the past couple years, and have learned a ton, especially from other people—but I also find it deeply frustrating when seemingly well intentioned folks offer unspecific feedback on how the significant investments of time, money, and energy I and others around me could be spent activisting better.
No. If you are literate and have internet access, you have no excuse to look away and pretend that's neutrality. It's siding with the oppressor.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/

> Of course, the terrible things I heard from the Nuremberg Trials, about the six million Jews and the people from other races who were killed, were facts that shocked me deeply. But I wasn't able to see the connection with my own past. I was satisfied that I wasn't personally to blame and that I hadn't known about those things. I wasn't aware of the extent. But one day I went past the memorial plaque which had been put up for Sophie Scholl in Franz Josef Strasse, and I saw that she was born the same year as me, and she was executed the same year I started working for Hitler. And at that moment I actually sensed that it was no excuse to be young, and that it would have been possible to find things out.

-- Traudl Junge

You can get propaganda and snippets of truth from non-CCP sources, you an get only propaganda from CCP sources.

To put a point on it, the fact that footage of Tiananmen is available from the BBC, not from the CCP, is not because the BBC is just doing a propaganda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMKvxJ-Js3A

The only thing standing between this being crushed by force is realtime awareness, and the isolation from China that could follow.

You, by looking away, are doing their work. Don't.
It's easy to not write constructors that can fail. The major conveniences like templates, RAII, overloading, algorithms, lambdas, virtual functions, etc. work fine without exceptions.
>He flew in an airline for a short while, but he is not a "former airline pilot".

"He flew in an airline for a short while" literally means that he is a former airline pilot, i.e. in the past he piloted aircraft, while being employed by an airline. Currently he also works as a helicopter instructor.
Among other things, trying to increase/decrease chances of pregnancy.
The tweet from Wunderlist's Christian (https://twitter.com/christianreber/status/117061566332663808...) reminds me a lot of Taskade YC S19 (https://www.taskade.com) and what they are trying to do in the productivity and collaboration space.
He Who Must Not Be Tolerated
humans already do that and even provide advertising data along with it
Maybe because something needs to be at each end, to shine a laser at one end and to detect it at the other. Or you could use a reflector, but that's still two objects.
I think the people need to come down hard on these companies. Nothing else works. Collective action gets the goods. Business disruption is necessary to get the rulers to change their ways.
Kara Swisher writing for the NYTimes: "Joi Ito’s fall from grace for his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was much deserved. But his style of corner-cutting ethics is all too common in tech."
Don't subsidize for profit companies.

Subsidies are a transfer of tax payer money to a company. If a company is turning a profit while receiving subsidies, it is simply a transfer of tax payer money to business owners.
A proposal to add numeric literal separators in JavaScript
All of these problems come from Medicaid and Medicare paying a lot less for procedure performed (In line with what Canada, and Europe pays) than the public market. It's a drain on most hospital budgets.

If all procedures performed were done at Medicaid-like prices, hospitals and physicians, and pharma firms, and, by proxy, insurers and medical schools would have to tighten their belts, and figure out how to cut costs. That's the entire point of such an exercise. We can't let health costs grow in an unbounded manner.
Facebook’s image CDN doesn’t work like this. If I save the media URL and send it to someone, it won’t work for them. I’ve tried — the URLs are user specific.
Zapier! The life saver for marketers everywhere that need to connect APIs.
It's a valid point, although probably not in the way the young man intends it.

In the interest of remaining fair and balanced, media ultimately has to appear biased, if the supporters of the issue are... unbalanced in appeal.

I think this is less of an issue with Brexit, as one can make a cogent argument for Leave (although that doesn't seem to be the popular argument).

But for something like chemtrails? How could you possibly hold a "debate" that a believer couldn't look at and say "You're just biased against my side?"
We wouldn't want anyone's efficiency to be harmed while the world burns. :/
What do you mean? The source is all open, and the bytecode format is well documented. There's nothing stopping anyone from writing their own with different semantics.

There's no doc on my work as it's private jerk offy personal project that I work on when I get tired of jira tasks and process.

Edit: here's an example of one someone did in rust https://github.com/qmonnet/rbpf
You can indeed argue that. Typing random URLs can indeed be a crime.
Many uses. Why do people check the weather before deciding whether to pack an umbrella?
That interacting well with people really matters. That it's worth attention and effort.
I wonder if this reddit comment was on to something: https://www.reddit.com/r/CannabisExtracts/comments/b1w76g/tr...

Some background information:

- Cannabis, particularly THC, extracts are quite viscous and require thinning in order to feed into a vaporizer’s heating element. In other words, even for very pure use, some thinning is necessary.

- Thinning agents include propylene glycol (PG) and polyethylene glycol (PEG), also commonly used in nicotine liquids

- A market for terpenes as a thinning agent has emerged amidst uncertainty about the long term effects of PG and PEG

I wonder if mineral oils sold as terpenes are behind the lipoid pneumonia as the commenter mentions. Considering at least some of the carts were tested to be of advertised potency, I could conceive of a contaminated batch of “terpenes” making it into a well-meaning producer’s cartridges.
After seeing the months- to years-long process that enterprises have undertaken when migrating from one JDK version to another because of these "obscure areas", I have little empathy for anyone delaying a python upgrade they've been given a 10+ year window for. Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 was similarly painful to python.
That’s because everything is political—including choosing to be apolitical.
>The mass shootings are terrorism which are designed to terrorize as many people as possible

Is that true? Last I looked, most mass shooting were domestic violence or gang-related
SoftBank Urges WeWork to Shelve IPO
What this misses is that these transactions for better or for worse are completely non reversible. You simply cannot do that with a bank transfer as given a good cause transactions can always be delayed, diverted or stopped.
Reading this article just down right sickens me... Corruption is everywhere, people who do the right thing get screwed over in the end. Why can't we just adopt the European model or Canadian model. This is the very reason why I just want to leave the US.
Ivanka and Don Jr.’S Fight to Succeed Their Father
This is also what I don't understand. Why tempted? You should have done it already
The nice thing about Knox is that it just wrapped macOS's built in XTS support. XTS sucks, but you didn't have to think much about what Knox itself was doing. Cryptomator implemented their own FUSE filesystem, and it's a strange collection of SIV, CTR, HMAC, and scrypt. I should like it a lot because I generally like filesystem encryption, but I'd have to actually read it carefully before using it.

There's a Cure53 "audit" of it, like for everything else, but to give a sense of how reliable it was, they flagged ECB mode... in the project's implementation of SIV mode.
If it's trivial, would you mind sharing some journalism showing what the "real" American homicide rate is? I haven't been able to find any.
I was thinking more along the lines of "added weapon poison damage", ex. https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/99646/can-...

Seems that lethal dose for arsenic is likely too high to be transmitted by even a pure arsenic trioxide blade, unless it was manufactured with the intent of leaving bits inside the wound, like maybe a blade a rough brittle surface to leave grit. Even so, would have to introduce ~50+mgs worth, which sees like a tall order.

Seems arsenic bronze is even less toxic, so probably not poisoning anyone. I wonder if the minor local toxicity of arsenic blade cuts would reduce the chance of the wound causing sepsis.
The federal government only subsidizes the expansion for so many years, although in all states where it wasn't expanded, it appears to be based on non-economic reasons. Expanding Medicaid in all 50 states would've avoided an estimated 15k deaths [1]. It would've also drastically improved health outcomes [2].

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/23/20703776/m...

[2] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/24/17779338/v...
The Polaris RZR, an off-road thrill that can go up in flames
I’d bet good money WeWork does it
However, if accessing the photo required authorization, then this would be a non-issue, since non-authorized users would not be able to access the photo in this way.

That still wouldn't affect the fact that your authorized users could copy or screenshot the photo, but it would mean that the company itself wasn't serving photos publicly when the users specifically instructed the company not to do so.
> Anyone can resolve the same hostnames that you are resolving

Yes, but your ISP (including "that coffee shop whose wifi you're using" in ISP here) can't necessarily tell which hostnames you are resolving, if you use DoH (subject to some limitations about what happens after you've resolved the hostname). This is in fact a privacy feature
I wonder how far you could get at doing this with no additional hardware. Could a smart enough AI detect the boss's voice with the microphone? Some other mannerism like the way they clear their throat? Face detection with the camera? Maybe something with Bluetooth or WiFi and the boss's smart phone?
Here's a dumb question about log-structured systems like this: does this system work nicely with backfills? Suppose you start logging events with Waltz and you want to migrate an existing system's data into the same log. Or something goes wrong and oncall needs to manually insert old events. Does Waltz have capabilities to backfill events into the historical log or reassign transaction IDs?

This might not be needed if this is strictly used for FIFO event consumption, but I guess I was thinking of trying to make a system like this support time-sliced queries.
Sharing a URL to an asset is different than downloading that asset and sharing it directly.
Are there options that don't involve advertising?

Is there any way that we as a society could try to move towards an online economy that isn't built upon hijacking attention?
From the top of the bottom part:

> The Finest of Fine Print

> No individual recipient will get more than $500 USD worth of Lumens.
Similar situation over here in Germany. New orders have dropped greatly in some branches of the industry that I know about.
The GitLab team will readily admit that they have a breadth first policy. This gives transparency for that policy, and does not change it.
His advice does not apply to you (as a founder).

He is diversified, so the outcome of one company does not really matter.

You are not diversified, so only you know what best.
Its good practice to prematurely assume threat. then in the future they can fall back on a more battle-tested policy
Medicade will take your property too so they can recoup costs if you die, so let me be blunt.

the whole US health care system is a mess because government, state and federal, made it one. then they continue to pile on to make it worse all the while fattening their campaign chests at the expense of everyone else.

the only way to fix US health care is to forever remove it from influence by politicians. Yeah it would take a law to do it but the system setup should basically tell the government, pay us and shut up.
Did it care if there was activity on your machine? I always worry about the system failing with these sorts of things.
ok I'll just brute force every 40 character hex string to find all the CDN urls and epically pwn everyone, thanks buzzfeed
In my very humble opinion, services that are offered for free should also be investigated for anti-trust practices. Google comes up with Gmail - phenomenally better than other services of its time - kills all viable competition and the let it languish or even degrades the experience. No one can compete with free. Result is that email as a platform is slowly languishing with no real improvements.
Good points.

> I don't even have a terribly good way to do that with the word "function"

This is something I have internalized: function is a map is a map is a map from one set to another. This is the reason I think that Functor is not such a bad name.
They're not unionized so it wouldn't be an approved strike. They could very much get fired for this, and I expect most employees that take part will get fired.
My team maintains a platform that runs in datacenters across four continents, a private cloud. 1000s of VMs

We use VMware and have its API hooked up to Ansible as well as Consul and monitoring.

We then make Ansible playbooks available for devs to create services which takes around 5 minutes to run. Since it has consul and monitoring hooked in we automatically create entries in DNS and can auto scale.

We have services running in docker (without kubernetes), consul is ultimately responsible for, based on service metadata, hooking containers to the ingress traffic through the Fabio load balancer.

I would like to understand what we are missing by not using kubernetes, every time I think about it and talk with developers I feel it isn't worth it.

My team would have to maintain an extra layer of complexity that can get us called at night for no clear business gain.

Would love to know what we're missing.
That's an interesting rule, but doesn't account for companies running at negative gross profit. SaaS companies can have non-negligible COGS since they have (virtual or otherwise) server costs. If (for example) your AWS bill is higher than your revenue, no amount of growth is likely to make that healthy.
Whether you are late?
> It's a scientifically proven disaster that has already happened

Ok, then where are the thousands of people dying? Where's the "disaster" part? Proclaiming something to be a disaster when the average person can't even tell something is wrong without being told something is wrong is the problem. "It's a disaster because our computers and scientific instruments have predicted it to be so!" doesn't carry much weight. People need tangible evidence that impacts their bottom line.

If you are in the Bahamas right now and you told someone "Hurricane Dorian is a scientifically proven disaster that has already happened," they would believe you, because they can see the carnage with their own eyes. They can see that their house is missing. They can see trees torn out of the ground.

Say the same thing about climate change and they'll think "huh, this summer didn't seem any hotter than when I was a kid. And last winter we still got tons of snow like we always do." and they'll write it off as hyperbole.
I wonder how many of these 941 employees will go out of the office with an unrecyclable plastic lined cardboard coffee cup, documenting their exploit and "activism" on all the major social media with their brand new iPhone 11...

At this point, "doing something" is most likely worst than doing nothing at all.
Stealer Airdrop
I really wish one of the big corps not currently in the healthcare scheme would lobby to change or disrupt the healthcare industry. I recall Amazon, Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway were trying to do this for there employees, but I havent heard the result of that for a while. The current players are too entrenched for any one entity without a lot of capital to disrupt.
Previous HN Discussions:

Commenter1: "Buzzfeed isn't journalism, it is just clickbait"

Commenter2: "No, BuzzfeedNews is completely different from Buzzfeed and they are real journalism and not clickbait."

BuzzfeedNews: "Here's this clickbait article that you can save images in HTML pages."

Commenter2: Facepalm
I would love to know the organizers' opinion on whether these various uses of AWS "accelerate oil and gas extraction," i.e. whether they would be allowed on AWS:

-The engineering of drill bits or other equipment that could be used for oil wells, but also for water or geothermal wells

-A business consulting firm running payroll, marketing, or accounting for an oil company

-Personal internet services for offshore oil workers

-Telemetry for drilling or pipeline monitoring equipment

-Geology research by a university that is likely to be used by oil companies
How about some good old fashioned anarcho-communism?
Honestly, downvoting - especially as implemented here in HN where it fades out things - was a mistake. I do not understand why people still insist on it and ask people to not use it as a "disagree" button (and flagging as a "super disagree" button) when many years of evidence show that despite any effort, it will be used as such.

I can understand (even if disagree) with Reddit-the-company wanting it to stay there because it increases "engagement" with the platform (regardless of the engagement's quality) and thus gets more ad revenue, but why anyone else (and any site that doesn't monetize such "engagement") would insist on downvoting is beyond me (and i especially do not understand people acting as if the topic itself is some sort of taboo to not even be discussed and treat its existence as unquestionable dogma).