skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would protest the point that you have to be as large as Amazon to produce your own database-as-a-service solution, especially if you are only building it for yourself. Throwing some automated tooling around Postgres and any arbitrary linux VM hypervisor API should get you a lot of the same value.

It doesn't take a ton of magic to allow a developer to spin up a pg cluster with a few clicks via some custom web tool. Reporting and operations are trickier to handle, but if you don't need to satisfy the same customer base as Amazon does (i.e. you are your only customer), you could probably pull this off at nearly any scale.

That said, I will certainly grant you the cloud vendor lock-in angle. It truly is one of the biggest ploys of this decade. My organization takes great pride in only using the most fundamental of cloud resources (compute instances, block storage, DNS, VPN, routing). If we had to evacuate AWS to on-prem or some other provider, it would not be a huge ordeal. For those who wound up with their entire business stuck firmly inside vendor-specific things like Lambdas, you have my deepest sympathies.
When I still maintained a FB account, I had very few friends, basically family plus 2-3 others. I didn’t like the privacy problems.

Not everyone uses the tool the same way you do.
> What about later and later bed times?

This is the real factor. When I was a kid - it was in bed, lights out and go to sleep at 9pm the latest during school nights - strictly enforced by my parents.

Now I regularly see small children (< 10 years old) out at the store past 10pm or 11pm on school nights.
Non-paywalled link: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...
Is it really that hard to receive the money then transfer it to the right account?

Yes, it's an extra step, but you're already doing way more steps to cash a cheque than use a transfer service where you only give an account number and suddenly the money is there.

IMO, this sounds like a solution looking for a problem to me.
My dad installed a menu launcher with password-locked parental controls for MS DOS. Within a week, I discovered that the configuration file (which I could open with word perfect), while mostly binary contained the passwords in plain text.

As an example of how not-sneaky I was as a kid, I immediately ran to my dad and showed him how I got the password.
You seem to be under the impression that "world leaders" means "leaders of the world". You'll be relieved to find out it doesn't. It means the most powerful politicians for each country. They are leaders around the world. They don't lead the world, they lead various countries around the world.

Regardless of whether or not this is the first time you've heard the term, it is absolutely not a new term. It has a very long history, it has a well established meaning, and complaining on HN isn't going to change the English language.

The CIA even publishes a list of who they consider to be "world leaders": https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/world-leaders-1/
While I am not currently looking for a job anymore (as I wrote: I found a job in a completely different sector), I nevertheless tried to find out what the company langsys is doing (since it is not unccommon for me to meet other people who have/had very similar problems). Unluckily, the website https://langsys.com/ contains no information.
This is a strange comparison. Cloud provider IaC offerings like Cloud Formation are obviously going to be specific to their service. AWS also has EKS for Kubernetes.

Things listed as lock in with AWS usually have easy migration paths. E.g. DynamoDB integrates with Database migration service and Lambda functions are easy enough to expose by shifting code to dedicated servers.
Yeah I guess you could get around it by building a ton of infrastructure like in Japan.
Ask HN: What advances in chemistry make super efficient cleaners possible?
The type of thing that gets advertised as not needing much brushing to clean stains from walls, etc. Or cleaning dishes. Or removing stains from clothes. Are they related to some advances in chemistry somehow?

It seems these things got way better lately and I was wondering what makes it possible.
It doesn't work in both directions though. That Trump isn't allowed to block people on a private website he (effectively) uses for official business is not equivalent to that private website being required to facilitate his official business. The first amendment prevents him from blocking because it would suppress the right of the population to address their officials, but it would also support their right to deplatform him as an exercise of Twitter's free speech.
I get similar videos recommended to me on computers I've never watched similar videos on before. They track you by more than your computer. I've had videos recommended to me on my computer that were interests of friends who had visited me at my house and watched youtube on their phones and the same has happened when I went to their house. I would be recommended videos within their set of interests.

You really have no control over what google knows about you or who they think you are. you can't change browsers, computers, or even your location to get away from them.
Was this for content or time? As my kids approach HS age, I can't imagine trying to regulate what media they consume (though the quantity could indeed be a concern).
I don't think any (major, credible) bank charges to receive a wire because like text messages, you have no control on getting wire transfers, and it would likely cost more to set up such a system than to just accept wires from anyone to any account.
https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/terraform/ very neat, I hadn't seen opa used in this way before.
I’m not even sure these are bugs. For example, if you restrict movie viewing, but allow mail or iMessages, and a (mail) message contains a video, should the phone show it, or not?

There’s a fairly complex interaction between Screen Time (settings controlling how often various features can be used), Down Time (settings controlling when various features can be used), Restrictions (settings controlling which settings the user of the device can change), various convenience features that pierce holes in that (ability to make photographs/send messages from the home screen, for example), and various cross-app capabilities (it wouldn’t surprise me if iBooks could be made to play videos inside e-books, for example) that, IMO, make it non-trivial to implement this in a way that makes it work perfectly as Parental Controls without leading to “but why doesn’t this work? I told the phone that application X was permitted” surprises.

If I enabled Screen Time for myself, the best answer might be ‘yes’. If I enabled it for my kid, it might be ‘no’.
Are you being sarcastic to imply the stereotype is false, or genuinely surprised?

I can't remember seeing anyone defend him much anywhere, and even though I don't think much of libertarianism and Rand these days, it would be interesting to read a defense by someone who was reasonably intelligent and had done some research beyond just listening to the stuff everyone repeats. I have a feeling that even though his management may have been destructive, the stories are greatly simplified and distorted to make good stories.
Exactly, gatekeeping everyone that doesn't have two Au Pair that are taking turns sunbathing on your terrace

also, squad goals.
That's not comparable. The Developer license only grants you 1 physical machine, and it cannot be used in a production environment.

Not equal to CentOS.
Most consumer-oriented businesses ranging from laundromats to coffee shops to bars to diners have signs that say that.
My solution is I would come home at around 3-4pm (after hanging out with friends for an hour) and then sleep for about 8 hours. I'd wake up around midnight and have a good ~5 hours to myself. With my parents asleep I'd cook for myself and do my homework and watch tv. When I had zero period having a rotated sleep schedule only helped. It was like living alone. I preferred the responsibility and the sleep schedule. There is nothing quite like that 3-4am calm in the morning.
>not cooperating with the police investigation

Here in the US that means "lawyering up instead of being dumb and running his mouth", not sure if it's the same over there. If he was really not cooperative the police would be more than happy to say exactly what (they say) he did.
Pretty sure if Twitter decided to allow one candidate to post on its platform but denied another one access, there would be a strong case that Twitter is making an in-kind campaign contribution to the first candidate.
Who decides whether the leaders break rules or not?
Twitter should do the right thing and shut down. Then Jack Dorsey should win the Nobel Peace Prize.
HN users find circumventing WaPo paywall is child's play
No, because its 4-miles away from Palo Alto (city of 60k).

Rural is mostly about being far away from urban centers. Buies Creek NC is 30+ miles from its nearest population center (10k+ citizens). While Atherton is 4-miles away from its nearest population center (60k+ citizens in Palo Alto).
Data lake
i did the same! I had to explicitly search for videos and click from there.

I also fixed the video in place so I could scroll through comments of howto videos to see if any of the commenters had corrections or improvements to the methodologies without losing the video content itself. It does that on mobile by default, but not on a desktop.
The planet already has too many pet animals that go unwanted and euthanized in shelters, and those are the lucky ones.

You want to encourage this outcome even more?

IMO, it’s better that the animal lives a good happy life with their human(s) and doesn’t contribute to pet overpopulation.

And if the human(s) in question need more companion pets, then they can go back to the shelter again and rescue the next one(s).
Are you asserting Twitter can't influence elections?
And of course there’s ways to solve this: tax the land at disposition. You don’t need to collect on the estate tax for land holdings as dollars at time of inheritance, you can just drop fractional ownership into a trust c/o the IRS and even retain right of first refusal if you should be able to pay it off in time. This is how the IRS already handles illiquid assets if an American chooses to expatriate: you get the choice to pay in cash or fractional ownership in trust.
The bigger issue is that MIDI is reasonably good for keyboard instruments but it sucks at almost everything else. So as long as you look through the lens of a keyboardist you might think the only problems with MIDI are related to the fact that it isn't ideal for editing but the real problems go much deeper. If you feel the analog controller bits are the issue that's closer to the truth, but music is about as analog as it gets and any attempt at digitization will lose some expressiveness.
Do Tor circuits always use 3 nodes? It seems like it should randomized/configurable (maybe 3 or 4 by default), such that no nodes can know whether they're an entry node or somewhere in the middle.
Terrorism as Art: Mark Pauline's Dangerous Machines
With most all of these privacy and anonymity stories, we're told of the types of data collected, then the type of group taking the data, then the reason the data is collected. Finally, there's some promise of the strict guidelines on how it is planned to be used.

The tech community needs to start calling bullshit on these kinds of stories.

Once data is collected, it's collected. It, for all intents and purposes, exists forever. So it's impossible for the group taking the data to promise what the data might or might not be used for. And that's assuming that the group is the only one who ever owns the data. In a world of ultra-high speed internet, that's almost preposterous. It's not if, it's when the data gets out. Once it gets out, it's everywhere.

While I understand that traditional property fits into a format like this, data does not. Trying to pretend that it does? In my opinion it's doing a great disservice to the readers.
Did you ever consider publishing your writings online anonymously?

I think they could be very interesting to other people who also write as amateurs and show the results only to a couple of the closest friends, or don't show to anyone at all.
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You only need to see a bad guy try to sweet talk the cops once to understand why law enforcement is so skeptical of anyone with a hint of possible guilt. This is doubly frustrating if you're the victim of a crime.

Not saying it justifies the treatment, but it does explain the binning, to some extent.
I know people in their 20's who make 100K+ but cannot afford anything because they get starbucks in the morning, expensive lunch and dinner at a bar daily.
It should be. There's a lot of research showing that kids need 8+ hours of sleep even more than adults.
If you think Twitter is informative and actual news is all fake news I invite you to in depth fact check 10 pages of news stories and 10 pages of your favorite tweets and tell us how it goes. Blog about what you learn even.
Hashicorp has a tool/framework for this, Sentinel https://www.hashicorp.com/sentinel/

I haven't used it in production. It uses an even-more-baroque syntax than terraform's HCL dialect, and using it kind of assumes that all your modifications go through terraform.
Three points. 1) The condos being built in Toronto are "luxury" apartments .. apart from space (perhaps to justify the lack thereof), many trimmings are opulent (granite counters seem standard now). 2) Toronto does restrict houses (not condos) because of the greenbelt put in place about a decade ago. 3) The transit system in Ontario and the highways are quite horrible for people living far away (e.g. above the green built).
The Python 2 -> 3 transition has been unusually bad.

In most programming languages, a change to the language is practically always backwards-compatible. The update may add new capabilities, but the old capabilities and syntax remain in place. If the language changes semantics, it's usually in bizarre edge cases of the language. If a basic data type was a mistake, for example, a new data type is added & people are encouraged to use it instead... but the old one keeps working. If an existing data type or method should be renamed, the new name is provided & the old name keeps working for a long time so that people can incrementally update.

In short, the normal expectation in programming language updates is that existing code will keep working, and that updates can be done slowly and incrementally. That's historically been true for Python as well; updates typically didn't break much. In the few cases where there were significant backwards-incompatible changes, languages typically give 10+ years of warning.

The Python 2 -> 3 transition has instead been an example in how to do things badly. Pretty much no Python 2-only code will work without change; you have to change print to print(), division's semantics have changed, string semantics have changed, common names have changed (xrange to range), and so on. The original automated transition tool originally envisioned could never work reliably, because Python's dynamic nature ensures that there's not enough information to work without help. So the demands on people to make changes were unusually large for a language update.

A related problem was that there was never an implementation that supported Python2 and Python3 at the same time. That meant that if you depended on 100 Python2 libraries, you had to wait for all of them to transition before you could transition. If 99.99% of the libraries you depend on are available in Python3, you must use Python2. You can easily create C or Fortran programs that call on code written long ago unchanged; that is not true for Python3.

So in the Python3 transition all code had to be modified simultaneously across the ecosystem, and tools couldn't do it well.

Eventually the Python3 folks made enough changes to Python3 so that it started becoming practical to write code that worked on both Python2 and Python3. That should have happened from the beginning.

The only language I can think of that handled a transition worse is Visual Basic. When "Visual Basic for .NET" came out, it was so grossly incompatible with the previous Visual Basic that it was called "Visual Fred". In numbers I saw long ago, about 1/3 stayed with the old unsupported Visual Basic, 1/3 changed to a completely different language (that was less likely to abuse them), and only 1/3 of the previous Visual Basic users transitioned to Visual Basic for .NET.

I think that Python3, all by itself, is a fine language. The problem in this case is that the developers of Python made it unnecessarily hard to transition to Python3. That was both unfortunate and unnecessary.
It can be worse than that. You don't even need to lose your password. You just have to not login for a long time.

For me, I made a one off account using my personal email/domain years ago. I think it might have been for a shared link or something. Google required phone numbers so I gave it one. Haven't logged in since and no longer have that phone number.

I got a shared link to an interview assignment during my recent job search, but much to my surprise, Google wouldn't let me login! Password hadn't changed (I use a password manager). However, Google's AI thinks I'm not me. I can answer everything but the phone txt during their recovery process; I even have the original activation email archived so I know the exact date I made the account. I even dusted off my old old old laptop to try using a "recognized device". No luck. All I get are warning emails from Google saying, "Don't worry! We stopped an unrecognized login attempt!"

I asked for access to be given to another email, but I guess I took too long in trying to dig up old hardware and trusting that Google's recovery process was sane. I got rejected.
How? There is literally a service dedicated to migrating databases into and off of AWS
This is a great move by California. My family engaged with school district officials a few times on why we started school so early, when there is so much research showing it is harmful for teenager. The answer we got was... buses and sports. And little kids.

Basically, the district needed to make sure that elementary school kids weren't walking to school or waiting for buses in the dark, so they had to start around 9a at the earliest. Since they needed to share the buses, they couldn't start all grade levels at the same time.

The reason why they went 725a, 750a, and 9a instead of something like 8a, 9a, 930a is that if you started Jr high or High school at 930a, they wouldn't start after school activities till 4p and would go after dark in the winter.

This always seemed an insane argument to me, but was said multiple times. My home district looks to still use the same bell schedule too.
Information can be harmful. For example, people who were raped as a child do not want footage of that rape distributed as a masturbation aid, and yet numerous dark web sites are dedicated to exactly this.
I highly doubt you went to bed at 9pm when you were in high school.
Also in Mavis news, it was recently reported that a store falsified invoices for brake work that may have lead to the crash that killed 20 people in upstate NY last year:

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Mavis-manager-Invoic...

"The alleged falsification of the records and the shop's purported failure to perform work on the 2001 Ford Excursion were part of a systemic practice at the auto service outlet as it tried to meet corporate sales quotas, according to court records."
I understand how you're struggling with this, but can I make an observation?

You seem to have a personal experience that you are vulnerable to YouTube.

However, you seem to be concluding that you are NOT vulnerable to YouTube. Not based on data, but because that is an unacceptable conclusion. Like a lot of people, you believe accountability is important for society to function. And it seems like you force blame on yourself, in order to rescue the notion of accountability.

I think you see the problem, right? But what if this whole way of thinking isn't right? There are some people alive today who still believe that getting a disease is a sign of not praying enough. Like, living in the USA right now. We know they are wrong. What if being vulnerable to cognitive exploitation is similar? What if it's foolish to put this in the realm of "the victim needs moral strength" and it should be more in the realm of "the perpetrator needs to stop harming / the risk factors need to be reduced by collective actions".
That's almost worse because the videos they are showing you are ones the general masses have clicked on and gotten sucked into.
i feel like you’re complaining about minor issues. if you really find this one thing annoying enough to write off a whole OS then you’re being a bit ridiculous. most of us are tech savvy so why are you using the GUI anyways when you have unix?

either way, to each their own.
Nine hundred miles from home I spotted a driver's license in the snow from a chairlift on Snowmass Mountain. It was still there when I skiied back down. Imagine my surprise when it was for a neighbor who lived two blocks from me! It was only surpassed by my neighbor's surprise when I knocked on her door and handed her her son's driver's license.
In my case, I have two card from one bank has sort code and account number.
I also have one card from a different bank has none of that.
Why are "free" functions useful? What actual real difference does it make compared to putting an extra word in front to call the method?
I see: if you're a big enough operation, you can't be held responsible because responsible behavior is just kind of inconveniently costly.

Eventually, you serve the tools instead of building them...
Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event
Well you can serialize tweets into text and then tweet that:

Leader tweeted:...
> The entire feed is conspiracy theory videos which have led them to believe some really awful things.

> the victims are actors, it was a false flag operation

You don't know what led them to believe what. And false flag operations are common, so is staging photos, videos for war propaganda. Those are not conspiracy theories, but our terrifying reality. Truth doesn't exist in wars.

One big problem with your story though, just like with every story on this Mozilla page, is that it's impossible to verify. And when it's impossible to verify things are often made up. Furthermore, emotional propaganda of such stories is pushing people to take some rumors, change them and claim them as their own, creating this "me too" movement of fake stories.

Another problem, is that the stories are so poor, that there is no perspective, baseline or any room to make any conclusions of supposed negative effects on people. Just fallacies. Do some strange things get recommended to some people? Of course they do. Do they even have enough reach to even theoretically be able to affect people? Certainly not nearly as much as a family friendly content of a girl living in a van with a snake.