skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh, god why? Why must people in our industry daydream about over-complicating things all the time? Very few use-cases benefit significantly from mirrored disks. The amount of data a user actually cares about having a backup of is often significantly smaller than the OS and related garbage on a disk that they can do without. Besides which, a local mirror isn't a good backup anyway!
The U.S. could slash health-care costs with two fundamental changes
She got into Harvard claiming "Native American" as her only race. If she were a conservative, she would have been crucified by now. Just because she's on the "good" side doesn't mean she gets a free pass, just like Joy Behar shouldn't get a pass for blackface.

Oh no, I said something inconvenient for someone's ideology.
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you that management doesn’t understand what security means. Shocked.

The military and cyber security just don’t mix. It’s simply too complicated. The military is a blunt tool. Security is nuanced. It’s going to get a lot worse before it gets worse.

Source: 7 years in uniform
Y=X is a specific instance of the expression.
>Search for something generic like "computer" and you can see an example of how hard it is to get information instead of ads.

Panel for computer sales at top. A maps menu showing computer shops near me. A Bestbuy link. Another panel for computer sales. Walmart, amazon, newegg. A wiki. And another sales panel.
Because the company is large and the churn in the app is very high, it is hard to keep track of what's happening across the app.

Does Facebook activate the camera during feed? The answer may depend on which user is logged in (A/B test), which device is being used, which version of the app (weekly releases), etc. A definitive answer may depend on when you ask, or not exist at all.

Maybe this is the default behavior, but it's possible that this is an experiment that Maddux happened to fall into. You can imagine that Facebook would be interested in gauging facial reactions to feed items.

It also may legitimately be a bug. It's reasonable that if you navigate to a camera surface, and then back, that the camera is not turned off. Because Facebook releases so often, the cost of bugs is reduced, so the number of bugs rises.

(Not trying to defend Fb here, simply answering the question.)
It's interesting seeing the various stacks being used...Here at One Medical:

[ onemedical.com, mixpanel, Google Sheets, Salesforce, etc ] -> S3 (Amazon EMR) -> [ Tableau, Aurora MySQL ]

It's a nice & clean stack for data engineering.

Airflow is used for orchestration and is heavily customized with plugins. Zeppelin notebooks are used by most analysts.

We'll probably be replacing Aurora MySQL w/an MPP database like Snowflake or Redshift. MySQL is a crutch, but easy to deploy and manage to a point.

Several python frameworks also do various ETL & data science functions, but everything generally revolves around S3 & Airflow.

Amazon EMR is a great swiss army knife for ETL. Moving between Pig, Spark & Hive is trivial. Tableau is a bit of a challenge. Tableau seems to give users too much rope to hang themselves with.

Also, we're hiring: https://www.onemedical.com/careers/
It may seem like a problem in isolation, but only if you ignore the alternatives.

Do you remember television or radio? How much choice did you have over the ads there? You'd literally have to sit through mass-market beer ads for minutes at a time.

With Instagram, the ads and soft-ads are oftentimes quite targeted. I get ads about theatre plays, musicals and ballet in my city. I wouldn't have found out about them otherwise - I think it's great! You can actually select an ad and say 'don't show me this stuff anymore' and provide a reason. I get to no longer see ads I don't like! Phew, that's a killer feature!

If the people you follow on instagram are generic, you get generic ads. If you follow niche markets, you get niche ads that you may be glad to find out about. Internet ads have become a reflection of sorts, if you are bothered by the ads, maybe what you're really bothered by is unfulfilled potential that the ads are a reflection of.

Your mileage may vary of course :)
These are pretty useful as a note taking tool personally, and avoid scanning etc. I've never converted over but have had colleagues use them exclusively.

PDF's are a terminal format though, and doesn't really meet the need of a persistent, editable, graphic format for diagrams.
It's that in the US it's a fashion vegetable that is too coarse to be eaten raw. If you want fresh greens on your sandwich you are better advised with watercress, arugula or spinach.
Here's one- The original claim was about a viral tweet- a photo at the Whitehouse with 33 X's over the faces of supposed congressmen that had been voted out since voting against Obamacare.

Since there were 33 x's, and that many Republicans had been voted out of Congress, they said true.

But in the original picture, many of the X's were reelected, and many weren't even in Congress to begin with.

The author has since retracted the tweet, and admitted it was fake. But Snopes just rephrased the question and left it as true.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gop-obamacare-repeal-elect...
I suggest reading the WebAssembly paper:

Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=14979605902538775...
Have a look at these links:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19769679

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869

If you still have questions they don't answer, let me know what they are and I'll add to the set.
SPLC brands anything they dislike "white nationalism". They're unreliable at best.
What I don't understand is - does she still think she's Native American? If not, what's changed since she filled that form in? It's not her DNA percentage result that has changed her mind, as she saw that as proof. I don't get what her thinking is, and I wouldn't mind her just explaining it.
Thank you. So this department has the authority and capability to ensure (to a reasonable degree) that Google does not abuse this data?
First of all, congrats on forming the alliance!

> Imagine extensions for applications or databases, written in any language you want, with no ability to exfiltrate data

That's what we are working towards on Wasmer, the server side WebAssembly runtime - https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer

In fact, we already have a lot of different language integrations (maintained by us and the community) and our software is the pioneer on the space.

Is there any reason on why you think is a good idea to do a side-alliance instead of collaborating with us and the community so users and developers can be the ultimate beneficiaries? (it's good, it just seems is not an alliance made for the users, which it's a bit weird from my perspective)
I don't understand your point; garbage in, garbage out.

I have a very old account and browse suggestions using my brain, not randomly. While not perfect, almost every recommendation right now looks like something I could watch.

Bicycling, civil engineering, cat toys, and weird metal music mashups, which are all similar to things I intentionally watched, but haven't watched.
Many people seem to complain about the low quality Google search but don't often offer any better alternatives. I can't help but feel like sometimes the quality of the Google search results reflect the quality of the web in general: stocked with a whole lot of spam content that people actually consume.

How do we fix the web?
PNG allows for sidecar data, so you can just encode your "source" there.
Hrm? https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/drawio
But there are garbage patents.
The contention that she has leveraged claims to be Native American to advance is, at the least, wildly overblown. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elizabeth-warren-wealthy-n...
Note that Disney+ does this as well by default, though there's a setting to turn it off.
Off-topic but sort of related: is there a hard drive tower designed specifically for a pool of SSDs? The one I have for 8 3.5 bays could easily fit twice as many of the little SSDs...
To those who downvote and think this kind of discussion is "off-topic" for HN: When and how do we hold our titans of industry accountable for their actions?

Many here either work at FB or are reliant on their network for work related activities.

All of this would be a whole lot less critical if Facebook did what Twitter did and bowed out of taking political ad money.
> This seems like unequivocally a good thing, no? Booking knows it can’t depend on the Google channel, that its future is best secured by innovating and building a customer experience that convinces users to go to Booking directly. That is competition working to the benefit of customers!

This is my impression too. I avoid Expedia like the plague. I only use TripAdvisor to read the forums. Booking doesn't even rely on SEO. They don't have a forum or don't make content. Booking has lots of dark patterns when booking but it just works and it has lots of choices at pretty good prices. The experience and the convenience is why I was booking at Booking.com in the last 5-6 years. I don't even use Airbnb. Booking has apartments too.

Expedia and TripAdvisors are similar to tourist traps in the touristic hot spots. They leveraged their SEO positions to grab whatever money they can get. Now that Google has figured out they can get some of that money, they got in. It's very easy, just move the juice to the partners and charge them money for that.

Expedia/TripAdvisor/Traditional-travel-agencies will need to turn their businesses around otherwise they are going the way of Thomas Cook.
Aye, I’m well aware what can go wrong when an integer overflow occurs. My point was the way Apple presumably[1] uses this particular Uint64 precludes such an event ever occurring within macOS’s lifetime, therefore there’s no need to explain it. If a macOS API generates that value and a macOS API modifies it and a macOS API consumes it, and users should only ever pass it around as-is and never screw with it directly, it’s opaque data and its internal workings are none of their business.

Okay, it would really help if C’s so-called “typesystem” would actually enforce a custom-defined type like `WordClockTime_t` so that client code can’t do stupid/malicious things with it like stick its own arbitrary integers in it; but hey, C. While a sensible runtime would also chuck an exception if a fixed-width integer overflows, rendering rollover dangers moot; but again, C. It is what it is; and so it goes.

But if, as an API designer, you’re going to document every single way your API may potentially blow up during normal/abnormal use then perhaps you should write that documentation in the form of defensive code that validates your API’s inputs and handles bad inputs accordingly. e.g. A timestamp API should not be making its users fret about (never mind cope with) C integer overflows; guarding against any edge-case crap is the API’s job, not its users’.

Again, the problem is not a lack of documentation so much as lack of clarity. A good abstraction shows only what its users need to know and hides everything that they don’t; the more that can be left unsaid, the better. (If an API can’t be documented clearly and concisely, that’s a huge red flag that the API design is bad so needs reworked until it can.) The problem with an API like this is the not-knowing, which indicates deeper, more systemic, failings than merely “needs more documentation”.

..

TL;DR: If your API is puking on its users then don’t start documenting the color and odor of that puke; fix its code so it doesn’t puke again.

--

[1] I say “presumably” because damned if I’m going to spend hours spelunking Apple’s crappy documentation just to find out exactly where this mWordClockTime value comes from and where it goes to.
Strike While It’s Hot: It Doesn’t Matter If a Platform Is Around in a Year
I don't use Lynx much, but Wikipedia, HN, Everything2 work fairly well.
I've never handled a project like this, but I feel like the goal should be to meet what average demand will be once the high demand of the first few days goes down. No one is going to remember that they couldn't login to Disney+ on the first day as long as the experience on the second and going forward is strong.
The scientist who’s been counting California butterflies for 47 years
CockroachDB seems to be getting a lot of attention and marketing cycles lately... What has made it the focus of late?
Wow great to see you in the thread. No questions from me but great job on the latest update.
I'm not sure what the message is here, though. Should the person running FB news have no political affiliations at all? Because if that's the standard, then it seems what you'll get is just people hiding their political affiliations, which doesn't seem particularly good for anyone.
> Additionally, explanations provided by human moderators did not have a significant advantage over explanations provided by bots for reducing future post removals. We propose design solutions that can promote the efficient use of explanation mechanisms, reflecting on how automated moderation tools can contribute to this space.
Add a little changelog.
us-east-1 is having issues, and IAM is run out of us-east-1

https://status.aws.amazon.com/
iOS Facebook app 'secretly using camera' while scrolling feed; likely a bug
I'd have repeated:

"they're identical. doesn't matter. but I got a stamp to tell you which one."

"they're identical. doesn't matter. but I got a stamp to tell you which one."
I use yandex images so often that it triggers their bot filter. I think they 've found themselves a high-potential niche here.
On a bigger picture, it is concerning that all big tech is now growing by squeezing their existing assets as opposed to by gaining more users. For example, Microsoft Windows used to cost me $20/yr in licensing cost, no wait coasts $100/yr. Similarly number of ads in FB, Twitter and Google has gone up by 5X. All these stunning quarterly results are mainly coming from squeeze. I wonder how long this can go on.
This survey, conducted by among other people a professor at the Harvard School of Education, found similar results: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/19/08/ednext-poll-democrats...

School choice isn’t a “conservative” policy. Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, etc., have extensive school choice. The US is actually an outlier in the OECD for prohibiting private schools from getting any public funding: http://www.oecd.org/education/School-choice-and-school-vouch...
Awesome! Just installed via brew

brew cask install drawio
I agree that even though the HN moderation tends to be more heavy handed, it's 100% beneficial for the community. However I doubt that the HN approach would scale well for a site like reddit— once you have dozens or hundreds of people doing moderation it gets hard to vet someone. Eventually you're gonna get a jerk moderator that goes on a power trip. I was a fan of how slashdot did "metamoderation" but I don't know if it was actually effective.
No, the biggest advantage was uniting all the disaffected neighbors to do the dirty work of fighting the war. There were at least 80,000 native allies of Cortes fighting the Aztecs, without whom the Spanish would have been slaughtered.

Most imperial expansion in the New World tended to rely on "ally with my neighbors' neighbors to defeat my neighbors, and now that my neighbors' neighbors are now my neighbors, turn against them using their neighbors" as the primary strategy for expansion. The technological advantage is often grossly overstated, especially since natives were eager buyers of European military arms, and Europeans were eager sellers of them.
I’ve wondered whether the name traces to Ian Murdock. He went to work for Sun, as best I recall, after Progeny closed up shop, and had roots in Indiana (where Progeny was headquartered).
> This was a couple of years ago, so things may have changed since.

Yes, Lucidchart's performance has improved in the past couple years. And we now have resources dedicated to improving performance.

> From that perspective, these isn't much difference between any of these programs, so there's just no reason to use a paid product.

That's fair. I think Lucidchart's main advantage is more advanced functionality. And if you don't need that functionality, why pay for it?
This would seem a fair assessment if it were not for my experience using Disney Life, their old streaming service. It has been out for years and is generally terrible.

- App is incredibly slow and takes ages to load. Worst on Kindle Fire and older devices (Netflix/Prime video work fine)

- sometimes a download film will just stop working and crash the device when you try to open it. Only way to fix is to delete the whole app and reinstall. Deleting only the download does not work.

- downloads are huge regardless of device/connection, appears to be no intelligent bandwidth usage.

- logs you out on every single update of the app or operating system (pain on Apple TV where it auto updates every minor version)

- logging back in requires you to go to their website rather than be able to do it on the device.

- never remembers where you are in a film properly

- interface on Apple TV is impossible to use (partly Apple TV controllers fault though)

Yet I still subscribe, because the content itself is great.
No, the CoC violation was for making a video, in his very popular podcast channel, supporting the "right" of Somnez to attack women in tech. Since Woods was coming to Kubecon specifically to podcast it, this made several women going to Kubecon feel very unsafe.
potato potato. They are using (some of) the ZFS on Linux code at this point anyway.
INI files and usingCamelCase always felt like an odd choice for something trying to replace the heart of a Unix system.

Of course, these choices don’t matter at all in the grand scheme of things, but it’s also these little design differences that seem to nudge systemd into the contrarian oddball bucket, for me.

Kind of like the summer intern that wants to refactor lots of code and changes the coding style while doing so.
That's actually what drove the title company to switch to laser: the forms kept getting thicker and the bottom layer impression was too faint.
Everything in google cloud and paid GSuite is 100% not used for anything ad related and you can check the terms and conditions yourself.
I've encountered something very similar, although not in the US.

When you register a business, that is public knowledge and can be acquired by marketers very easily. Then someone calls you up, makes you believe that they are the tax authorities (although very carefully never saying that they are) and get you to pay for a registration, which might make a new entrepreneur confused and think that they need this to be VAT registered.

Those who sign up have actually signed up to be in a shitty business directory made by someone's 14-year-old nephew. They provide nothing of value since no one uses their website and there are free business directories that just add your business as soon as it hits the tax authorities' database. But they will claim that they are providing you with crucial advertising.

If you don't pay up, they will say that you have a valid contract with them and you have to pay, or else. If you wish to hear the contract between you and them, they will say that the recording is purely for judicial action - you're not getting it. So unless you record all of your calls, you have no copy of the contract.

The sums are not massive. Maybe 300 euros. Definitely valuable, but perhaps not so valuable that you want to waste your time fighting it.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
by Lori Gottlieb

> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37570546-maybe-you-shoul...
I'm a little bit Native American, according to my family. I have never claimed that my parents weren't allowed to get married because of their tribes, nor have I put Native American down as my race on a college application.

Warren found a politically convenient fractional truth and exploited it.
Of course it’s good. Consumers get lower prices from the opening stands. Eventually McDonald’s will need to start selling lemonade or won’t be able to afford buying all of the stands.
Real worried when I see phrases like "secure by default" that this will involve some sort of security certificate or formal verification process which a government or other malicious actor can use as a weapon against its enemies.

Is the security limited to sandboxing of the code itself or is there some sort of verification process involved?
The first time this became an issue for me I pointed out that I'd saved a frustrating half hour a day for our dev team by making a series of QoL improvements. Across the team that was well over 40 hours a week. If you do things that make other people faster but not yourself then you look bad... to a shitty boss (and Mike was the shittiest I've ever had.)

These days I'm more likely to fix things that bother me and then share them after they're debugged. And often after I have my fingers in something new.

It makes me wonder if the proportion of 'scratch your itch' projects wouldn't be lower if people weren't disillusioned by the process of doing something solely for other programmers.
I'm sure the best PHP 4 article will be of no help to someone writing code targeting PHP 7.3 today.
But why did she claim it at all? Even if her family's story was correct, having one Native American ancestor at some point ages ago, does not make you simply 'Native American', does it?
I will take the reply-less downvotes to mean "I wish that weren't true." Feel free to search 'site:snopes.com "the onion"' if you like.

Snopes and its staff may well be left-leaning (everything is left-leaning if you're right-leaning enough, and vice versa) but their tiff with the Babylon Bee is not evidence of it.
Lots of people photos to their wall, or change their profile pic, etc.
SAT solutions, including libsolv, is (somewhat surprisingly) not a suitable solution for pip, and Python packages in general, at least at the present time. The Google Doc link in dimino’s comment[1] covers the issues quite thoroughly (at around page 10–12).

What I understand from the RfP is that evaluating work is basically done, and the main work is to integrate the backtracking implementation into pip. But one of the more important task listed IMO is to untangle the current resolver implementation from other pip components. This implies that 1) the new resolver will be a relatively isolated component, allowing code reuse for alternative package managers, and 2) the resolver can more easily switch to a SAT solution when it becomes viable to do so.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21512322
I signed up an hour ago for the trial. There were some minor hiccups but I was able to download some stuff.
No, the point is that Facebook has been trying to position itself as an arbiter of political neutrality while consistently taking actions that obviously indicates the bias it has.

You can't claim you have no position while simultaneously taking actions that benefit one side or another. If they're going to go that route, they might as well just come out and say what their bias is rather than gaslighting people into thinking that they're neutral.