skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With an actual meritocracy.

Did you see the recent college admissions scandal? All of these institutions present a facade of being merit based, while in reality admitting people who have money, power, connections, are good at gaming the system, or multiple of the above.
These highly ranked posts claiming DDG is unusable are paid shills, right? I've been using it for years no problems.
Whenever one of our essential 3rd party services go down, I can only shrug and hope they figure it out quickly. They provide a good service and nobody has 100% uptime. Still better than solving it internally, which is even more likely to have downtime.

Partial failure is just fact of life. If this is a major issue for your process, it might be better to try and find ways to alter your process so this isn't an issue. Alternatively, mirror locally.
Hong Kong Protesters Are Targeting Starbucks. Apple Could Be Next
I build the occasional small mobile application. I evaluated Ionic, React Native, and Flutter about 18 months ago; and ultimately landed on Ionic for the projects I needed to ship.

Next one will likely use Flutter.

The "Hello world" story on Ionic is pretty good--you generate a project and it works. But configuring and maintaining the various layers (Ionic, Cordova, Android Studio and XCode projects for actual building the apps) has been pretty brutal for apps I only touch every few months. So many dependencies that prove very difficult to update correctly.

The story looks to be improving with Capacitor though, so I suppose I'll give it another look when that stabilizes.
As addendum, Java has had support for AOT since around 2000, the only caveat is that it has been a feature only available on third party commercial JDKs.

GCJ improved very slowly and around 2009 lost most of its developers with the release of OpenJDK.
What is your evidence? Even according to Snowden's leaks NSA only collected meta-data and not full on conversations and contents. Not cool at all and should have never happened, but it's a far cry from Chinese-style surveillance where there is absolutely no expectation of privacy at all.
$100k/year still might not be enough to buy a home
Yes. Currently 100% of the subscription revenue is shared out to the authors. Obviously, there's some venture capital paying for the rest of operations right now, and the revenue share will change. But yes, in general, the point of the subscription at Medium is to pay authors and editors to get better articles.
That doesn't refute anything I said.
I guess in 10 years time, when dockerhub goes away, and most of the packaging scripts have broken online dependencies, a bunch of those docker images are going to be really hard to rebuild...
Yes public housing is great In Austria in general, you'd just need to fulfill some requirements to be eligible for it, one of which you need to be a resident of the city for 7+ years.
Yeah, our bioinformatics department is already using anaconda extensively.
>Adobe never got the chance to prove it could work

Wait, what? They had years to demonstrate it working well on Android. They failed. Spectacularly. Why are you ignoring widely accepted fact of tech history? Are you implying that is also Apple's fault?

Look, if you want to discuss Apple being anti-competitive I'm all ears. I more or less agree. But using Flash as an example does nothing to help your argument. That's because everything Apple claimed about why Flash wouldn't work on mobile was later proven to be true. Everything.

Flash on Android was a disaster. Ignoring that fact to claim it could have worked on iOS (because... magic?) is nothing but revisionist anti-Apple zealotry.

Never let facts get in the way of a good Apple-bashing I guess.
What nonsense? I grab the photos I want and airdrop them. It is probably 99% easy as I could imagine it to be without a brain to iPhone interface.
Like God forbid you lose your password and their AI refuses to authenticate you. The Google borg-like organization seems to lack any semblance of humanity.
Well, you can just use the Roman approach, and buy an educated slave.
> Oracle goes after customers with 3rd party companies

That's going to end soon - the partner ecosystem has been royally shafted by Oracle's big "cloud push", people are moving away from a vendor who simply sold them down the river; and in their Brave New Cloud World, there is no need for license resellers and auditors.

Ironically, that might end up improving Oracle's reputation - they'll just be seen like Google, where everything is automated and support goes from mediocre to nonexistent.
Dang is a terrible moderator who engages in ideological censorship
I'm sorry, but after trying yet again to contribute and yet again being slapped around I've finally had it.

Dang, you are the single worst moderator I've ever had the displeasure of having to deal with. You regularly ban, throttle, shadowban, and otherwise censor used for purely ideological reasons while claiming that their posts are "unsubstantive". The entire structure of HN does inevitably lead to an echo chamber of people who are at times incredibly lacking in self awareness, but your actions only exacerbate this problem.

Anyway, this post is giong to be downvoted, flagged, and probably deleted with the account banned and maybe a weak redirection to an email account. God forbid we discuss the state of the site and moderation publicly.
I feel like every YC batch must get 100 applications for a Meetup alternative. I wonder why nothing has sticked or worked. I find every aspect of Meetup to be very 2010 and hard to use.
Related, my girlfriend just bought a refurbished iPhone SE for $125. It works flawlessly, I think they were released 3 years ago now?

You can also sell (or trade) your iPhone after 3 years for 30-50% of the original MSRP, while android phones you can probably get zero.
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(Not OP.)

I thought TMS can do that, after all it can do the reverse: https://neurosciencenews.com/memory-loss-reversed-tms-12006/

There are some adverse effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulat...
Something that just strikes me as weird is how the tabs (for images, videos, news, etc.) aren't really tabs to different pages, but rather some sort of inline expansion thing. When I look at images, the regular results are still there if you scroll to the bottom. They're there for a second until infinite scroll triggers and loads the next batch of images, pushing the regular results to the bottom again.

It's not really an inconvenience. It's just weird. Why do it like that?
SNOBOL4 pattern matching may fit your bill, although it is more powerful than regexps [1]. You can play with SNOBOL4 on x86 [2].

[1] http://www.snobol4.org/docs/burks/tutorial/ch4.htm
[2] https://github.com/spitbol/x64
Me neither, which is why I refuse to work for a company with that kind of work environment. So far, my personal experience is office>cubicle>home. If I ever do find myself unfortunate enough to be forced to take an open office job, I expect it will rank below working from home.
I tried DDG for around a month. I really wanted to like it, but the results were just too inconsistent. I ended up using !g about 90% of the time after getting unsatisfactory results, which just doubled my time spent searching for what were sometimes quite simple things.

I know it's more, but DDG really just feels like bing with privacy.

I ended up using startpage.com which basically gives you Google results without all the stalky tracking nonsense. Now I only resort to Google for about 10% of searches.
> (in Germany we track you place of residence basically from birth, it's used not just for voting but also for determining where your taxes go, for government communication, to make sure nobody skips out on bills by moving, etc).

If we tried to institute that kind of system, the political party which currently is all against voter id would be up in arms too.
SOL can altered retroactively as in pedophile cases where they have been abolished.
Google actually honors that for you? It seems for me that no matter how hard I try to tell it that I _absolutely_ want an exact search term, it tells me to go fuck myself and returns results that don't include it. DDG seems to do a much better job at honoring this.

Look Google, if you can't find any pages with my search term, it's OK to return nothing! That's valid! It means I need to change my query! Stop trying to make a square peg fit a round hole!
The latter is where Voter ID laws tend to bite. They make it difficult for certain communities to obtain an ID via a variety of underhanded tricks.

What you typically see is a Voter ID go into effect, and then whoops, the state budget is too tight this year so we're closing down a whole bunch of DMV locations and restricting hours on the rest.
Next thing we need is a search engine specifically for those websites, hosted in the same way.
Reinventing the internet all over again!
I personally believe that it's all about _people_. How do you plan to push the community forward? After all everyone just shares their free time.

So far based on what I've observed, people in the D community is the biggest critique of it's own, even more so than any other community I've seen on the internet.

The D forum is full of shit posts thrashing D for what it is.
A lot of large cloud outages are caused by networking problems, which do tend to bring everything down.
It is indeed! Thanks for pointing it out, just added it to the post.
Improve ARKit’s image tracking by discarding blurry camera images
Here is the meat of the Report:

>We migrated 75 petabytes of internal data stored in nearly 7,500 Oracle databases to multiple AWS database services including Amazon DynamoDB,Aurora, RDS, and Redshift.

>We kept careful track of the costs and the performance, and realized the following results:

>Cost Reduction – We reduced our database costs by over 60% on top of the heavily discounted rate we negotiated based on our scale. Customers regularly report cost savings of 90% by switching from Oracle to AWS.

>Performance Improvements – Latency of our consumer-facing applications was reduced by 40%.

>Administrative Overhead – The switch to managed services reduced database admin overhead by 70%.
A big part of that is rust-docs; each page is its own file, so that you don't need a web server.
A quick skim of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program) reveals that "only collected meta-data and not full on conversations and contents" is false.

> Data, both content and metadata, that already have been collected under the PRISM program, may be searched for both US and non-US person identifiers.

There were many such programs that collected the data itself, as revealed by Snowden. PRISM is just the first that came to my mind.
Ugh, another one of these threads.

Python 3 came out in December 2008. But for a lot of packages, it wasn't realistic to migrate until it was possible to support both Pythons from the same codebase. And that wasn't realistic until 2.7/3.3, which was 2012.

At that point the rising tide started and packages with no dependencies began doing dual support. But it was many years before there was enough coverage that application level packages like django could consider migrating.

So yes, the cutoff could have been somewhat sooner, but if the PSF had attempted to force a transition in 2009, it would have been a death knell for Python. Not even numpy was available for Python 3 until 2011!
"Why should they do that?" is the better question. The tenets of Debian include stability. Having packages that may break at any time with no recourse is not stable.
My Neighbor Totoro would be great at 2.5
See albuterol inhalers. Its absurd. They changed the propellant for the delivery system and somehow that is novel enough to be awarded a new patent. People will die without these and the drug is 50 years old at this point.

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/10/heres-why-you...
This has broken fresh containerized deploys on Heroku, which is surprising since they run their own registry. They should be proxying Hub, it'd save them a ton of bandwidth.
Github used to be in their own colo on their own bare metal. I'm not sure if they've been pushed into Azure cloud as part of the MS acquisition, but either way Github isn't paying cloud retail ($$$) for their bandwidth, and it's likely sustainable.
Kodak had a huge interest in selling photo paper and products related to film development.
Title may be a bit misleading. Youtube links are no longer allowed as standalone submissions, and even in that case there are exceptions. YouTube links appear to be allowed, as usual, in all other circumstances.
It's not really a fee. It's just the price they charge you for data transfer to external systems. This is known as Data Egress charges and all cloud providers I know off has it. The cost of egress will depend on which service you are using. Some services have lower data transfer out costs, some have higher, etc..
60GHz is the real new and shiny thing that makes some people worry.
Curious what particular eschatology drove them to do this, the article doesn't mention any. Now I'm imagining that it wasn't tied to any specific religion or prophecy, but just the concept of time somehow coming to a stop.
1. When did I say that Amazon replaced Oracle with MySQL? I just said that MySQL is an Oracle database.

2. Open Source licenses that Amazon is not violating - a 3rdparty lawyer would be able to ascertain better about the extent of legality on Amazon's changes and its contribution back to open source software than you and I do.

3. Ex-Amazon employee here. My comments are purely based on my observation - and purely my opinions. Why can't I talk a lot?
Everybody in your world has an ID. In some impoverished and elderly communities not everyone has an ID. You don't run into these people in your day-to-day life as they manifestly don't have the same work and living habits as you do.

Millions of these people do exist. I've had family members in this boat. Renewals, name changes (especially for women), DUIs, homelessness (which encompasses much more than literally not having a roof over your head), lack of mobility, a DMV that's 30+ miles away, and the simple fact that successfully voting isn't exactly high on the list of priorities for people facing these issues--these are just a few of the myriad random barriers that conspire to hold back people from voting. I've personally seen them among acquaintances; if you haven't, consider yourself fortunate.

I don't see why it needs to be denied. The level of effort the state should expend to address these issues, what sort personal investment and initiative we should expect of people, and such burdens relative to the risk of fraud--these questions are worthy of debate. But nobody wants to argue these things fairly because, for better or worse, the facts are uncomfortable, especially if you cling to the principle of universal suffrage, which we're all expected to do. And maybe that's unfair--it is difficult for certain political perspectives, such as that we should recognize some aspect of voting as an earned privilege requiring some modicum of initiative, to be voiced these days. But that's no excuse for denying facts.
He is still around, but private life has gained more priority and he decided to refocus.

There was a post about it on the forums.
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Daily users and lately I use !g three out of ten searches which is a decrease. Apple Map integration and its recent satellite view is great!

Things I still use Google for are...

- getting Distance from one city to another

- getting X business locations nearby with hours

- movie times/listings

And unfortunately

- email...would love to use a DDG email service .. wish DDG would somehow let me use my iCloud email through its interface. I and I think millions of others would move away from Gmail then.
Coretto passes TCK (as well as RedHat and Zulu, amongst others out there), there's nothing to sue for.
They don't run them, but it's sort of intrinsic to their platform that low-budget meetups can't access it, and those can be some of the best because they don't have to answer to sponsors.

I run a "meetup" that is not on Meetup, in part because of the cost (I'm fortunate that in a technical niche community in NYC, word of mouth spreads fast).
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> whose customer relations strategy seems to actively involve litigating them as a default assumption

They are not nice to their partners either.
> Does anyone know anything behind the economics behind this?

You use VC money and run at a loss while focusing on marketing and tech evangelism, getting more and more startups and hopefully established companies using your software. As the cracks begin to show those growing organizations have too much tied to your system and they can't afford outages and need to scale. So they pay you for the Enterprise version of your software where you actually fix all of flaws present in the community version.

Look at MongoDB if you need a good case study. It was incredibly hyped from about 2009-2015, people would defend it in heated online arguments, and today it's rarely considered for greenfield projects. But they're making about $100M/qtr selling subscriptions to Enterprise & Atlas servicing the technical debt established during that hype cycle.
cfront testing run on MacOS in 1987, from "floppy disk"; confirm
You don’t gave a low cost, accessible national ID. In Europe, we do. Democracy is for everyone, not just those who can drive or with a passport, but everyone so unless the US gets a national ID for everyone any restriction on identification will disproportionately hit low income voters.
It helps if you read the entire comment, as it would be obvious that the objection was to the "obviously synthetic" nature of the study.
I'll take 2.4% growth all day long.

The title is misleading. I don't want incredible growth, I want sustainable growth.
I've worked with IPFS and I completely agree with you here. There are so many basic bugs that haven't been fixed because of the over abstraction of LibP2P.

Currently, it connects to bootstrap nodes and tries to discover peers asynchronously. Obviously, it doesn't handshake with the bootstrap nodes in time for it to start discovering peers so it waits another 1-5 minutes depending on the setting to try discovering again.

Startup usually takes a few minutes due to this trivial problem and an issue has been open for it since May: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/5953
That will help reduce fatalities but definitely won't eliminate them. Also you're gonna see a lot of people in drones strung up in trees/powerlines and in need of rescuing.
Most of them survived, only a few died according to the article.
Dogs can be very patient IME
Thanks for sharing this. I had similar thoughts/feelings on the philosophical perspective on providing for your children and this is really well presented.
> Does OnionShare do this?

IIUC, it's onion-routing request traffic to your computer, but your computer is still acting as the sole server of the website. Turning off your machine gives incoming requests nowhere to resolve to.
There is none. There was a project scope

- finish company service (given their not clean data)

- finish integration with X api

- finish integration with Y api

and that would be finished in 4 weeks.

I finished all of those and apparently was not enough because they thought it was me not being a "consultant" by not helping cleanup the data and therefore everybody was delayed.
Just need another two-hundred and fifty three wrongs...
> Thanks, Mike. And thanks to all for the concern - I also got a few private emails asking me for the juicy details. Of which there are none - my family needs me and some volunteering activities had to give way.

> As Jonathan mentioned I'm still working with my students and working on the Foundation administration, legal, taxes, and finances.

> I've been involved with D since 2005. That's an eternity in this business. I think bringing Atila to the fore is a great positive because it brings a fresh perspective and approach.

from https://forum.dlang.org/post/qj18h2$8o1$1@digitalmars.com
They don't really charge you a fee. The only thing you are charged is data transfer out cost of whatever amount of data you transfer out. And that price is the same whether you are transferring data out for backup, for use by your internal systems, etc. Or for leaving to another vendor.

Also, as far as I know, all cloud providers charge for data transfer out.
Sure that too. And indeed, re-running WWII to try to solve our inequality problems would be a terrible idea.

I just think it's worth trying to understand all the ways in which society and the world were different back then. In part so as not to be too easily seduced by anyone offering one of them in isolation as a solution.
The low-fat diet craze you used as an example originated from "scientific study". I'll stick to common sense and moderation.
When you leave your house and/or are in plain view that does not require tress-passing.

This stuff has already been decided. Remember the "Streisand" effect?

If you step out in public, anyone can record you or take your photo. Including a government agency. What is going to be interesting is what public entities (agencies) are restricted from doing with said data. I don't see laws being passed restricting everyone from doing facial ID matches (namely private citizens or companies). Nor would I want them.

I think it is a hard thing for people to conceptualize that you do not have a bubble of privacy everywhere you go. In certain places (home) you do. Not much elsewhere.
Performance and value of performance has always been a thing in all nations, whether or not there's the backdrop of nepotism or corruption.

However, if you're saying that somebody has been starved from youth and is now way behind on the kinds of skills which would help a company compete, then in a sense that person is no longer meritorious. Merit and fairness aren't the same thing, and are intuitively at odds even if you had a magical wand and could reset everyone's "starting position."

If you cannot work because you were subjected to unfair biological risks throughout life, can you continue to be a metaphorical stunt double?

The hard question to resolve is not "if we can have it all, shall we not just have it all?" The question is when merit is in tension with fairness, what do we value more? Whether the metaphorical movie comes out better? Or that the movie provides opportunities for society to correct injustices? In the context of global economy, the ones who vote on this question are the citizens of the world.
If there's no contract, what obliges them to pay you? What establishes your hourly rate?
Well, to me this would also look to benefit from any number of spreads, veggies, relishes, or sauces. However, I'm not Norse, and this is what "culture" means. There are lots of different ones. I'm sure the Norse would find some of my food habits puzzling as well.
> also get very weird about "databases of people",

I always frame the argument like this to my family when they complain. "I'm not opposed to the government maintaining a database of everyone's current address and related information, but if they are going to do that, they should provide free IDs and encourage everyone to participate."
It is written in D.
RHEL's fork of Python 2 has a roadmap with clear dates of support. It won't "break at any time".
Estimating log growth rate is troublesome. It might be easy enough to measure under normal operating conditions, but sometimes something breaks, maybe a sensor goes bad, and all of a sudden you're spamming your logs at 10,000x the normal rate.

Assuring yourself that under no circumstance is that possible can sometimes be tricky.
This seems pretty off-topic
Yeah. Quite honestly this is embarrassing.
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(think of the demographics of many of the people who excel at many of those events...)
Another thing to try: experiment with not eating lunch at all