skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> good practices and HTML don't really exist

They do, we have a standard for that, https://html.spec.whatwg.org/
What do you mean unreasonable? Does a blanket statement like this really apply to every major US city? I see multiple apartments for $800 or less in LA, SF and Seattle on an apartment search site.
It's not inherently a HIPAA breach to use cloud hosting for your data. As long as you tick the security and compliance boxes, it's perfectly legit.
That's a bit of a silly comparison. "The only dependency is a recent 57+ version of Firefox." Ha ha ha ha...

It's a nice project by itself, but I have to wonder why there's such heavy emphasis on binary-only distribution - there's no link for a source download, no Makefile, no meaningful notes. guess we have to just grab the files from Github and just poke around for a while until we figure it out?
They are the same ads for all users. It's only a coincidence. The list of all (the recent) post is in https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
>If they were honest about this

Most traffic to Snopes probably comes from people searching for specific articles, quotes, and/or stories and a generic "these are all satire sites" page wouldn't pull up for those. If the goal is to combat specific instances of inaccurate information, even if the intent initially is satire, then what they're doing seems like a better solution that what you've suggested. I can't even understand how you'd jump from that to calling them dishonest because of it.
There's a lot of hope out there for ceramic matrix composites. Not only can some materials handle much higher temperatures (which translates to higher pressure ratios and higher efficiencies), but they do it at lower weights and higher strengths, with high resistance to oxidative degradation in the presence of contaminants.
It's banned in the EU and Canada because of concerns over mammalian toxicity. The stuff is not safe for the worker that applies it unless serious precautions are taken, and we all know what agricultural labour looks like.
I work in content marketing so SEO is a big part of my work focus.

Google's algorithm tends to classify queries as "evergreen" and otherwise. With the former, recency doesn't seem to matter that much. I've had content stick a page 1 ranking for 3+ years without any updates.

For non-evergreen keywords, recency matters a lot. A fresh article on an established domain can often outrank better, but older content.

The query classification system works well enough for most keywords, but there is a grey area where Google doesn't really know what to focus on. Like with a query that focuses on "best practices". It isn't clear whether Google should prioritize classic, evergreen best practices, or focus on more recently developed best practices.

I would definitely appreciate a filter that only shows me old school content for my target queries. Some of the best content I've read online sits on websites that haven't been updated since 2002 and still use tables based design.
GDPR should kick in long before medical data is on the table.
What do you find restrictive about pip-tools? It's been working excellent for me.
Exactly! Me too :D
In MySQL, discovering the UNION hack a couple years ago was like a revelation. It’s something that I’ve since been preaching to everyone who’ll listen.

It’s extremely common to want to OR a small set of items. It feels like the compiler would be smart enough to use an index (presuming one exists matching the searches fields), but it doesn’t. UNION makes it use the index.

It’s a nice tool to have in your kit.

(At least not in 5.6 or 5.7.)
WSD seems neat. I'd like to explore it further, but I'm not interested in signing up for yet another account.

For me, the biggest advantage Draw.io has over many of its competitors is that it can be self-hosted.
>more difficult for the "small guy" knowing that they may have to pay Goliath's team of 1000/hr lawyers if they lose.

as already posted in this thread, many countries solve this by putting a treshold on this amount to be repaid by having fixed rates for legal costs (you have to repay the legal costs but not more than those fixed rates)
That’s because the web is dead. Lots of passion projects that would have been on a blog or websites are locked into Facebook or even Twitter threads.

My local historical society decided to produce lots of content and exclusively post to Facebook. It’s incredibly dumb, but people seek the easiest path.
Do you even notice the instagram ads? I'm so blind to them while I flick through I can't even tell if they are for a bank or for clothes or whatever.

> Search for something generic like "computer" and you can see an example of how hard it is to get information instead of ads.

To be fair, "computer" is such a generic term, I can't even imagine what you expect to see when you search for it.
The Perl Master Plan -Fact or Fiction?
E-Bikes vs. Regular Bikes, a Comparison of Heart Rate
I am indeed someone who doesn’t understand how HIPAA works. I have seen instances of healthcare professionals getting jail time for disclosing celebrity health records however. How is google able to legally get access to these records? I suspect they’re not and if so, someone should be held criminally liable for this.

If google is able to get these, what’s stopping anyone else?
I can't help but think this line of claims has an eerie resemblance to homeopathy, naturalism, and assorted fallacies mixed within. Not hard disproof but enough to raise alarm bells and frustrating to try to pick through truth from the dubious.

Oxidation both being damaging in too much and having a purpose? Perfectly consistent with prior health experience and toxicology that adding something everywhere like a toddler doesn't generally help. Communication with herbivores? That is assuming too many mechanisms and ascribing agency which doesn't exist.

Self-propagation can look remarkably like agency but it isn't it. If a plant puts energy into making its fruits delicious to an animal and gets its seeds distribuited far and wide that plant will spread more than the one whose fruit is horrifyingly toxic. Never did a plant decide "lets be tasty".
you got the theme of Team America stuck in my head. :-)
> I'm talking about users aggregate behaviors.

So am I.

For example, Github currently hosts the majority of Git repositories online, and I've heard people argue that this means Git isn't really decentralized, because the user behavior is to stick everything into a central repository on a central server. But when Microsoft bought Github, lots of people migrated to Gitlab, and (issues notwithstanding) it was easy for them to do so because of Git's distributed architecture. Git was decentralized enough that pivoting from a bad event was still way easier than it would have been with a different architecture.

When I talk about decentralization as a practical concern, I'm not worried about users aggregating around good services. I'm worried about whether the architecture supports moving away from or augmenting those services if something goes wrong in the future.

And what I mean when I talk about centralization as a continuum is that the social aggregated behaviors you're worried about are still strictly better under a PeerTube system than they are under a Youtube system -- so there's no point in bashing PeerTube just because it doesn't solve literally every problem.

If I'm removed from a centralized PeerTube indexing service, my video is still online under the same URL, and I can still point users at a different indexing service. If censorship becomes problematic or widespread, users will move to different indexes because the network lock-in of an indexer is less than the lock-in of a social platform. As far as speed concerns go, users can fall back on slower indexers only when fast ones fail. All of this is workable.

But if I'm removed from Youtube, I have to start over from scratch with a new URL on a different site with different features that doesn't play nicely with any of the existing tools or infrastructure.

> I'm talking about centralization as a emergent phenomenon

The emergent phenomenon you're talking about is that sometimes better, faster services have more users than bad services. That's not a problem with decentralization, and that's not a problem decentralization is trying to solve. Decentralization is only trying to mitigate the harmful effects of that phenomenon.

It is not a desirable goal of decentralization to make every node in a graph have the same traffic levels -- and I mean that both on a technical and on a cultural level.
If he felt it was frivolous, he would dismiss it. There's nothing wrong with filing large numbers of cases, per se.

See also https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2018/04/12/what-is-a-copyrig...
That way of thinking has definitely proven useful in the domain where it started (at Morgan Stanley). We’ve also been looking at how to map it more closely to C/C++ and native hardware, kind of a structurally typed Haskell variant with small header-only views from C/C++ (for native access to files, network IPC, shared mem structures, ...):

https://github.com/Morgan-Stanley/hobbes
You mean fridges that use propane as fuel or ones that use it as a freon?
A teacher tests tax law by moving in a canoe
I recently had to get personal workers compensation insurance for a contract (bc). Could have gone through a service to do it. Employer would have paid. Would cost them $6000/year, with a ~$2400 tax liability to me. Did it myself for $10/month and ten minutes filling out a form
To take your argument to its conclusion, what if someone at Ascension wanted damaging information on one of its patients?

They'd be legally liable. Same as those they sign BAA with.
This is not a matter of targeting as much as it's a matter of people falling for satire and not having the ability or resources to tell the difference. If it was really that easy to "launch nukes" against a site, then something like Snopes as a whole would be ineffective.
ETL: Domo data connectors, Python, SQL

Warehouse: PostgreSQL

Reporting platform: Domo
I don't actually use Instagram anymore but when I did I definitely noticed the ads. They were always irrelevant, annoying, and obnoxious.
Some animals are better than others for eating and spreading seeds. If a plant could choose it might prefer birds eat its fruit, especially over animals with molars that crack the seeds. Not coincidentally, the active ingredient in hot peppers, capsaicin, impacts mammals but not birds.
Door and window sensors that trigger alarm or beep depending on if armed or not. Perimeter monitoring. Motion detectors.
Exactly why I described it as having no recourse. :/
Thank you, I was wondering how to use that darned Google.com website.

That said, if you have a particular source that you would like to direct me attention to, I'd be interested in knowing because none of the first few results seemed to have anything relating to your comment, beyond the already established fact that yes, they are scams.
It's also possible to have both.

I have a "smart pen" that saves anything I write as a PDF on my phone that can be searched and stored where I choose (including cloud services).

The downside is that you have to write on special paper or in special notebooks. But it's not as terrible as it sounds because the notebooks are very reasonably priced.

It also works as an actual pen.
What's the point of this? It's still running javascript, it's still downloading images, it's still doing DOM layout. This just seems like a gimmick that renders a page as ASCII art. It's cool, but it's not a Lynx replacement in any way.

Lynx and other text based browsers are useful because they save bandwidth/data by not having to fetch a ton of resources, are safe and fast because they don't run javascript, and are accessible since there's no computer built in the past like 30 years that will struggle to run one. The only draw back is that some sites don't work well with them, and the UX will push away non-computer geeks.
His whole "antifragility" concept is mostly just cherry picked examples with little basis in science or true systems analysis. He has extremely high self confidence which many people confuse with actual knowledge. Don't take it too seriously, it's just entertainment.
Have you tried w3m?
> Google is slowly becoming useless

That is not the thesis of this article. In fact, the opposite. The article claims that despite the increase in advertising, for the given exemplar (hotel search), the ads actually make Google more useful compared to the ten-blue-link baseline.
"Snopes fact-checked a right-wing parody site, therefore they're biased for the left" is a meme that gets mentioned weekly on any political argument/discussion forum. It sounds persuasive as long as you don't look to see whether they fact-check left-wing parody sites too.
Storing hydrogen for seasonal use could be neat. Split water using summer sun, use hydrogen to generate electricity in winter.
Americans think Microsoft is the most ethical company. Facebook, not so much
Funnily enough, HN actually works reasonably well in lynx.
Do you think the seagate barracuda deserves to take the “death star” title from HGST? I think HGST has redeemed themselves with sub 1% failure rates for years. Seagate managed to put out a 30% failure rate drive.
That's a little bit like asking how nginx deals with DMCA requests.

It depends who's running the specific server running PeerTube.
With travel booking it's hard to have sympathy for anyone, I don't really care if "evil" Google defeats or buys up the other brand. I pretty much feel ripped off no matter what service I use.

I also call up the hotel directly most of the time to see if I can get a better rate or room, often works.

With air travel I want the one with the best grid to win, if I have to launch a new search every time I try a new date or nearby airport it's a no-go for me.
>destroys it’s own credibility

How so? If there are people out there who believe it enough to ask about it and post on their forums, then it's not as clear of satire as you're making it out to be and there's motivation for them to cover it.
I wonder why it's not illegal to impersonate a public service or department
LaTeX to Unicode with quick text (Android app)
Mocks Should Be Blowing Up
Salon.com... yuck.

What an echo chamber of millennial leftist garbage. I think Buzzfeed news is better journalism than Salon, and thats really saying something.
They probably don't want using their "unlimited" 6$/month plan for terabytes of data.
They also have B2 priced by stored amount, but they don't provide software: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html?use-case=back...
> But you cannot deny the amount of good we stand to gain from an advanced electronic health system.

Not one that has anything to do with Google though.
I included the link to give a quick overview without polluting the thread, as there is no one blog post or resource that outlines the many issues with that particular industry.

If you'd like to know more, please feel free to email me (email in profile). I know someone who sells these products, and was asked to invest to scale up volume (politely declined after researching and reviewing materials provided for due diligence), so I have context that a resource like Consumer Reports or The Balance might not have.
It is actually a (pretty silly) meme itself that being a meme is derogatory :)
>with freedom of speech values

No thanks, I prefer to go to bars without Nazis.
I think the best course of action is to build elinks-like console interface on top of the Servo[1]. Just without the WebRender and optional JavaScript engine.

[1] https://github.com/servo/servo/
If you are learning Scala, then the red book.
Well, it would be nice to know how others are more qualified so you can remedy the situation.
I think you misunderstand the cited article on water vapor.

The water cycle is self regulating, unlike other green house gases.

>> "However, water vapor does not control the Earth’s temperature, but is instead controlled by the temperature. This is because the temperature of the surrounding atmosphere limits the maximum amount of water vapor the atmosphere can contain."

The other non condensing gases, largely from man made sources, contribute to global warming and elevate the amount of water that can be vaporized per unit volume of air.

Cutting down on emissions by replacing oil based vehicles with electric/hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles absolutely helps the environment. Cutting emission sources makes job of scrubbing the atmosphere of the green houses gases already present more achievable.
Programming is a trainable pursuit. Perhaps they are mediocre, or perhaps they are even bad. So, the best thing you can do is spend a significant portion of the time pair programming and seeing the project through their eyes.

Second, you probably should be taking some of that time you are coding and instead extensively documenting how it works, the design methodology, and making sure the unit tests are covering the code. After all, there are many implicit decisions in the code that they have to re-discover.

If you don't have tests, it makes working on a project as a new engineer difficult because you have no guard rails to know if something broke, especially because the specification is only in your head.

If you invest in your other engineers and in the process, they will become much faster and that slow down is a temporary bump in the road.
See also: the Futhark programming language.
There are so many of these scams out there. The internet allows people to google to check if it's legit, but they'll also find a lot of online firms offering the same service at a markup, which helps convince people that the original letter was legit.

In the UK it's free to change your name, you can just write your name change on a peice of paper, get a couple of friends to sign it and you're done. I've done this, but when I tried to explain to someone else the free process they told me I was wrong, citing scam websites with semi-official names that charged for the process.
I'd have concerns about the effects of hypersalination on the ecology local to wherever you propose to dump this brine. This isn't "wringing hands," it's learned caution by somebody who doesn't believe in free lunch.
>it’s not the site it was before

How so?
Isn't that the idea? The Instagram ads are supposed to look like the posts you're looking at and hopefully your lizard brain stores the ad image as you scroll by.
Yev here from Backblaze -> the Computer Backup service does not offer an unlimited Linux backup service. We do have support for Linux with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage and our integration partners (https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html?platform=linu... - I filtered the list by Linux for you). On the business side the NAS backup is also done via our parnterships and B2. On the consumer end, we haven't found a way to make unlimited backup sustainable with NAS/Linux since those devices/platforms typically have WAY more data than the average user.
Why the Government Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup
Thanks! What’s the capacity and utilization rate of those boot drives, then?
When you form a new business entity the firms that help you do it will charge $50-$100 for an EIN number from the IRS. This is the tax ID for artificial persons, whereas the SSN is the tax ID for natural persons.

You can get an EIN from the IRS online for free in 5 minutes.
> By increasing the shard integrity check rate, we potentially moved failures that were going to be found in the future into Q3. While discovering potential problems earlier is a good thing, it is possible that the hard drive failures recorded in Q3 could then be artificially high as future failures were dragged forward into the quarter. Given that our Annualized Failure Rate calculation is based on Drive Days and Drive Failures, potentially moving up some number of failures into Q3 could cause an artificial spike in the Q3 Annualized Failure Rates. This is what we will be monitoring over the coming quarters.

Wouldn't survival analysis on interval-censored data handle this problem automatically? All of your observations of failure presumably are actually interval data, where all you know is that the drive failed sometime in between the last good check and the first bad check. Then it doesn't matter if some time periods have large intervals and others have small intervals, that just affects the precision of estimates.
The Only Sure Thing in Software Engineering
WD isn't much better, but Backblaze stats have consistently shown Seagate to be higher failure rate than everybody else out there.

Good riddance.
Comment I saw about the manner from a mod on reddit:

>As a moderator, I will sometimes send a message to a poster whose post is removed. However, if it is "commercial spam," I don't bother because we both know why.

Sometimes redditors comment without understanding that they broke the rules. Sometimes redditors comment using spam and they fully know what they are doing. In the first case, a message to them to tell them why is helpful. In the second case, it's not.

I personally (as an active Reddit user), feel that the interaction with the mods there is always in a negative context. On /r/technology, for example, you can get ban without any specific reason and messaging the mods won't do anything.

A few weeks ago I made a silly comment in HN on a post that reached the front page.
My comment got a few downvotes and one of the mods sent me a message with what I did wrong.

I then went one step back, understood that I wrote something that is against the rules of HN and sent the mod an email with an apologie. He replied almost instantly.

That's one of the reasons I prefer HN over Reddit. It seems like the mods are not here to punish, but to create a healthy conversation infrastructure and to lead users who are not into the HN spirit yet, into the right path
I worked at a title company and owned the escrow and documentation preparation software. At the time they used line printers to print on carbon copy forms. Each page was differently colored so the "original" was always the white top copy. Getting a new copy of the paperwork was of course expensive and only the original was accepted for certain purposes.

We had a very interesting conversation with the doc prep department when I moved everything to using high speed laserjet printers. "Which one is the original, now?" The end result was someone buying a large rubber stamp that read "Original." :-)
Then I stand corrected. Is there anyway to avoid drive failures or should we accept the fact that they will break eventually? Also, the data is interesting and appreciated.
Codefresh Launches World's First CI/CD Live Debugging Tool
But the word play is important, this fact seems lost on the OP.
All of that is happening on a different computer with a fast connection, and then it's sending you the result of all that rendering in a highly-compressed from.

It's almost like using VNC in some ways...
Systems is awesome because writing a service is as simple as writing a unit file. You don’t have to worry about daemonizing, you don’t have to worry about logging (use systemd syslog option).
Any google employees/friends of google employees here with insight as how staff is receiving this news? My guess is like all other egregious abuses of power, the employees will stage a "protest" to feel good about themselves then keep working there.
There was also the recent example of the fact check "The Democratic party has tried to impeach every Republican president since Dwight D. Eisenhower."

Even though the Democrats have tried to impeach 5 out of 6 presidents, this was labelled as "Mostly False".
So put it on a tanker, and dump it out, bit by bit, in the middle of the ocean. This isn't a difficult problem to solve.

It is absolutely wringing hands, compared to what we do with far more damaging products and byproducts of petroleum extraction.