skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too many subs have completely ridiculous rules and tyrants for mods. Some subreddit about interesting pictures didn't want screencaps so they made the rule say "screens" and then removed posts involving any screen anywhere even if the contents weren't the focus, like a cool breakage pattern. Such a sad state of existence salivating at such a tiny amount of power that you ruin a subreddit for everyone removing valid posts. I honestly wish subreddits had no mods at all, only spam removal allowed, after having had to deal with the bad mods that ruin the site.
The pythons where right all along. Its conspirancid!
There was a HN post a few weeks ago showing how Duck Duck Go was better at showing old content. I totally agree. We like what's fresh and new, but next time you go to a blog and read some tech article; look through their archive and see what else they've written. If you run your own blog, keep an easily indexd archive page. Mine goes back to 2007: https://battlepenguin.com/archives/
The meme is actually "X is dead, long live X" - it's been misused here.
Thanks to chaos, we will probably have no shortage of computationally infeasible systems.

Though the study of those systems is often labelled by something other than 'physics'. Biology or Chemistry or Psychology or Economics etc.
Another version of the grift is to scrape lists of newly registered businesses and send out an official looking letter charging $80 to send a laminated poster of the kind that some states mandate be posted, e.g. about workers' comp.

Except that these materials can typically be printed out for free, and the letter makes every effort to appear to be a mandatory bill coming from a government agency.
I've seen past instances of articles like this getting flagged here - possibly by a large amount of Googlers/ HR? I'm glad this didn't occur (yet).
I'm not suggesting to assume the IPCC is wrong - but that the reports have a conservative outlook. In some respects that's a good thing in that outlying and unclear studies and predictions will be omitted, yet some of those outliers may turn out to be accurate and the middle of the road view wrong. That's fine and expected, if frustrating at times.

In other respects, notably the structure of having a political approval stage for reports has, if that Guardian Saudi piece is to be believed, subsequently toned down those consensus views -- under pressure from home for political or economic reasons. There's also an awful lot of "he said, she said", meaning it's impossible to reach certainty from those reports. Without criticising any nation's scientific and economic representatives involved in the preparation phase, there are multiple representatives criticising that final political approval phase... Draw your own conclusions.

The upshot for those of us trying to make sense of it is IPCC tends to a very diligent presentation of the least contentious, which subsequent measurements have shown to have underestimated it on multiple occasions. Which leaves me thinking IPCC reports a best-case scenario: I believe them, it's the best consensus we have, but am not surprised if something crops up that turns out to be worse or more significant than projected. I still find that far better than had they been over-estimating impacts consistently. YMMV. :)

Specifically on tipping points, they're likely to always be something of an unknown before they actually tip. Once a threshold has been passed and an ice sheet thought safe for decades collapses, or permafrost tips into catastrophic melting it's clear the threshold was passed, and we know from hindsight. Predicting and modelling on the other hand will probably remain near impossible - we only really know after it's switched. Which is, of course, after it's too late and tipping them back effectively impossible.

That said, that old Scientific American article mentioned they would be including some consideration to threats from tipping points and non-linear effects from 2014.
Hey dang, I agree with your warnings down thread. I let the person I was responding to get to me and I should have conducted myself better. Sorry. I’m having a hard time figuring out what the issue is with this particular comment, though.
just avoid facebook if u don't like it. much easier than molesting your poor phone to try and use services which don't agree with you...
browsh doesn't work well for me at all.

https://q3k.org/u/d808e1792782743cd58d4bd04a760211dde2075c32...

browsh on the left, links on the right, showing this comment thread.

(the terminal emulator is urxvt, which has so far had no trouble rendering any sort of TUI)
Woaaah, this is really ridiculous. The Ninth Circuit thinks that not only are there "anti-competitive" exceptions to Section 230 (there aren't), but that Section 230 applies to actions that a user-installed software takes on that users own computer?!

How do I file a brief with the court too, to tell them how horribly wrong they are? This seems like a ham-fisted attempt to weaken Section 230 in any way that they can.

This ruling opens the door for advertisers to sue authors of adblockers for blocking their ads, because it's "anti-competitive." Terrible, terrible, ruling.
I've added "read more" links to make it more obvious that there's more!

https://www.htmhell.dev/
It does, but it also creates an investment opportunity for cases where the chance of winning is high.

The problem with each side paying their own fees is that there is no such beneficial investment scenario for the party that eventually wins. it's all pure losses and then you win but are not really compensated for the financial cost of defense.
It's like 400 pages! Can you recommend an excerpt?
The benefit is for people who need assistive technologies to browse the web. If you don’t know anyone who needs assistive technologies, then of course you wouldn’t see the benefit.
Here's Woz talking about the same : https://mobile.twitter.com/stevewoz/status/11934247872482795...
I'm sure nobody will like this idea, but cameras and microphones should have a physical switch that kills the power and data feed, in my opinion. So you would have airplane mode and trade-secret sharing mode. Power should be diverted to an LED so that people can see you have disabled camera and microphone.
Let me try this with less snark than the previous commenters:

> We take the sun being the center of the universe

You mean solar system.
These are all really bad. But when my designer designs links as buttons and buttons as links, which am I supposed to use? Then there's the redesigning pages, layouts and widgets every other week, based on our trackers and heat maps. How can I care about the quality of my html, when I know it's all gonna be scrapped next week or month when a new redesign comes in?
I've tried asciiflow a few times and monodraw seems so appealing in contrast. But: Mac-only.
No they are YouTube ads, you see the indicator showing when they are going to appear, etc. Happens on all sites with embedded YouTube videos.
And is there any reason to not trust WD Red drives in my home NAS?
Everytime I read "resilience" I instantly remember "antifragility" concept coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. His book Antifragile goes in more depth about stress causing improvement in systems (therefore antifragility), both in human body and other systems (economics, social, political, etc).
Yeah I hate articles titled like this, I immediately went to check if Thomas Dickey had passed away or something. If something so simple and easy to use, isn't broken I don't know why people continuously think they need to redo the wheel.
Seems like a lot of fake news over a cloud storage deal

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/our...
N = 1
Here's all of Snopes' articles about the Babylon Bee: https://www.snopes.com/?s=babylon+bee

They're all things that someone actually thought was real. For example, they quote multiple Twitter users who apparently believed that U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar said "If Israel is so innocent, then why do they insist on being Jews?" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/omar-if-israel-is-so-innoc...

You'll find just as many debunkings of Onion articles, including left-wing satire like "Mike Pence Disappointed God Has Never Asked Him To Kill One Of Own Children". https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mike-pence-laments-no-sacr...

It seems disingenuous to act like Snopes is targeting right-wingers specifically. There are gullible idiots everywhere on the political spectrum.

Edit: Someone is downvote-brigading every post in this thread defending Snopes. I would honestly like to hear what you think is not factual about my comment.
A variant of that, but something I’d like to see is listing initial publication and current revision/update status (including initial). Then at the bottom of the post put a summary of each update so readers know how the post has evolved.
At Amplify, Matillion/Stitch/Fivetran/Custom -> S3 + Snowflake -> Matillion for transforms -> Looker + Tableau.

It's important to say out loud that a lot of analysis also happens within product-local reporting systems, or in "offline" Google sheets.

We are currently working on building out the same stack, terminating in a Powered By Looker instance, for customer-facing aggregate reporting.

The engineering and data science teams do great with Looker, but Tableau still covers use cases for non-engineer business people (think: the finance, customer operations, training, etc) who want to start from source data plus a few sidebar Google sheets, tinker around, and then develop a rough report without waiting for iterative cycles with the data engineering team. We're thinking hard about how to get those use cases into the warehouse + Looker faster.
Practical Guide to Become a Data Scientist
Ive done 2 data pipelines, one alot like what most people are are talking.

The other I had to build for a startup with millions of monthly uniques but only seed funding (cant do a 30+k a month data eng bill).

Went with custom event emission->kenisis->(druid & S3)
and used imply (https://imply.io/). Easy real time data analytics, auto "enrichment with druid lookups from a RDBMS, and a simple ui for slice/dice investigation metrics. All in all costed lest then the cheapest looker license.
Unfortunately that's the reality of the modern web, you need a modern web rendering engine to deal with the javascript and whatnot just so you can reliably extract textural content.
Thank you for the explanations, I will try to read more and figure out stuff.

By the way, I was not complaining, I was just responding to

> I agree. As the creator, it can be hard to write documentation for a beginner audience, so I'd be great to hear your input. What would you suggest?
That's not just a thing done by blogs. Several "news" sites like (german) t3n.de do this. Or some sites like cnet.com etc... mostly content like "The best CMS as of {insert year here}" - so mostly things you can use years later. However, it doesn't help if the library isn't receiving any updates anymore. I don't think it's just to get a better search ranking but also to manipulate users (they want to use up-to-date software/etc)
Informatica -> ADLS -> SQL Server -> PowerBI
also, in the same department:
NiFi -> HDFS -> Spark -> Hive -> NiFi -> ADLS -> PowerBI
and:
NiFi -> Azure Event Hubs -> Azure container instances -> Event Hubs -> Streaming Analytics -> PowerBI

I'm pretty fond of the last stack for streaming dashboards in the sensor data realm.
According to the Solaris wikipedia article, it looks like Oracle has added major features/enhancements since going back to closed source. Do any of those features make it back to illumos/Open Indiana?
Was it largely Barbara's project? That makes the change of ownership a lot more accurate, since she's not owning any of it now. I got the impression David considered it mostly his, but that disagreement might well be the reason for the messy divorce.

I clearly don't know enough about the background to make any call on who's right and who's wrong here.
Core ML 3 Sound Classification on iOS Using Create ML
> The USPS offers this for free

$1 if done online.
Nah, not dead by a long shot, and way less bloated than firefox.

2328M 831M select 0 24:33 2.05% firefox

29656K 9096K ttyin 7 0:00 0.00% lynx
I'm not on the data team but on the dev side and we are currently looking to do that with Looker.

After looking at the different way of doing that with their API I think we'll have to use that https://docs.looker.com/reference/embedding/sso-embed for a mix of convenience and security.

(I'm not affiliated with Looker and have no opinion about it ... yet).
Why are people down-voting an honest and helpful suggestion?
It always depends on who you want to hide these messages from. Of course, end-to-end encryption is more secure than pure server-side encryption. But do you really need end-to-end encryption for such a webtool? After all, all TCP packets are already encrypted via TLS. The advantage of these web tools is in the temporary storage without being able to restore these messages, not hyper secure NSA-proof messaging.
You get hydrogen gas and chlorine gas; one is fuel, the other feedstock for any number of industrial processes.

(Electrolysis of an NaCl solution is already one of the standard methods of producing elemental chlorine for lab and industry use. The efficiency isn't great, but the method described in this paper appears to improve considerably on that, assuming it can itself be efficiently implemented at industrial scale.)
> Even worse, "malicious" clients could spin the bit randomly.

That's how its supposed to work. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-quic-transport-23#sec...

> When the spin bit is disabled, endpoints MAY set the spin bit to any value, and MUST ignore any incoming value. It is RECOMMENDED that endpoints set the spin bit to a random value either chosen independently for each packet or chosen independently for each connection ID.
This article is a good argument that it should be banned.

Also, the US has a lot of influence. They could get chemicals outlawed in other countries if they really wanted to. I mean, they got the whole world to adopt biometric passports, and they managed to get banks worldwide to agree to their reporting requirements.

But when it's about dangerous chemicals, they throw their hands in the air. Presumably because the industry needs some place to buy their poisons.
Not a fastmail customer, but someone who is looking for other paid email providers, the whole privacy thing is concerning, but more concerning to me is getting Google banned and losing access to much of my online life.
Correct! Wife works in the field (source for my anecdote), and she confirmed I was confusing PrEP with antiviral treatment.
This is an O(1) solution (one integration works for all languages). You're proposing an O(n) solution (binding into individual languages.) That's why.
Google doesn't do a damn thing about the feedback.

Every time I search for my bank's routing number, the first result that pops up is a fishy looking 3rd party website. The numbers are accurate (for now?), but it's super sketchy. My bank's results are three or four slots down the list.

I keep complaining and Google does nothing. It may just as well be an elevator "close door" button.
This trick is as old as dirt. How is this a story?
Various -> Airflow -> BigQuery -> Looker

We have a variety of data sources, from Mixpanel to PostgreSQL to black-box systems that can only dump out CSV files. We use Airflow to manage pulling from those, doing some transforms, and writing everything into BigQuery. Looker then handles the reporting and browsing.
For that to work you'd need to demonstrate the business is actually charging $80 for the deed ... but they're not. Deep in the fine print there'll be something about the cost being $3 for the deed and $86 for the "proof-reading, checking, and validation service to ensure you have included the necessary information for your deed request to be completed promptly". Regulating against services that claim to help people would be very difficult.
Ah, but even if the net EV is negative, it still makes sense to part with a bit of money that you won't care about, for a miniscule chance of receiving a life-changing amount of money.

If you're not just barely scraping together, dropping $25 on a negative EV lottery is not going to make one whit of difference to your finances. But it might change your life.

Dropping $25,000 on a positive EV lottery, on the other hand, is an incredibly dumb move.

Since most poor people will, in fact, miss that $25, the lottery is a really bad idea for them. Yet, they play it a lot more than the middle class do...
Snopes also had to debunk an Onion article headlined "Mike Pence Disappointed God Has Never Asked Him To Kill One Of Own Children".

It only looks like they're being partisan if you cherry-pick your articles.
That's nice. I can fit most of the syntax in my head (more than be said for Markdown...)
Well, that seems a lot less sensational than the article. Covers HIPAA as well.
Requirements:

- Firefox

- Docker

Yeah, it's not replacing Lynx any time soon.
> But due to the unpredictability of the GC, you could be in the middle of a query execution and the GC can kick in.

Yes, that is a possibility. Typically there are two ways to deal with this in a GC'd language: (a) You know that GC is only triggered by certain operations that might allocate, and you avoid those operations in your critical hot section, or (b) you know how to disable the GC temporarily, while you are in that critical hot section. For Go the latter is apparently done by calling this function: https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/debug/#SetGCPercent

I'm not a Go developer myself, but I imagine people developing such low-latency software in Go know about this.
If you haven't tried out Factorio [0] I highly recommend it.
It's a great game and the demo alone was enough to sell me on the game. Don't be put off by the "early access" stuff, I've sunk hundreds of hours into this game, it is a blast. In all of that time I've never played online/multiplayer so if you don't like that aspect you can just ignore it.

[0] https://www.factorio.com/
I still use w3m, for basically an easier, less cluttered text based version of a page. Cuts the cpu goblins found in adverts too. Some sites just won't work for me in a modern browser without at least some blocking.

Personally I find w3m easier on my eyes. I have tried to run with it as my primary, but oddly enough some of the full baked browsers still feel faster. That I can't really figure out! It could be pre-fetching or pre-renders, or some other trick.

I tend to have at least one JS disabled browser, with my own stylesheet to ape something akin to the console browsers.
SO someone saw Lynx and thought it wasn't using enough memory? So lets make a lynx that requires a running instance of firefox?

I don't get it.
Yes, you misread a chart and did not read the article you linked yourself.
CEOs' Allergy to Geopolitics
It is X and Y, the original phrase used the word 'king' in both places but it refers to a different person each time (i.e., the dead king and their successor). It would not make sense to say "Lynx is dead, long Live Lynx" as that implies Lynx's successor is itself. In the words of Robert Cecil: "The League is dead. Long live the United Nations."
They "founded" America and their values persist into modern day in one form or another. We will always have a puritan(ical) streak.
Habits for Success Are Lies
I recommend you only obtain routing numbers from within your bank's mobile app or website. Can't speak for all banks, but Chase, Fidelity, and Schwab all list your routing and account numbers prominently when logged in (and some financial institutions have different routing numbers depending on your use case, a wire vs a direct deposit for example).

To your point about Google feedback, sadness, but unsurprising.
Links is the best text based web browser.
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Did I get a sponsored post on Hacker News?
Today I've been researching the company "Flexport", googleling it a lot. A few moments ago I discovered that a Flexport post about hiring developers appeared on my Hacker news main feed (see link below) - and I'm not able to view who posted it or up/down vote it. Is this a sponsored post?

https://imgur.com/8gyqN0P
Unlike what the article might suggest, lynx isn't dead. It is still maintained.
Pizza Gate led to an armed individual shooting up a pizza store because he thought it was an undercover pedo ring.

So yeah, I imagine the fabrication, proliferation and automated spreading of conspiracy theories to have potential major societal impact
And editable! Last time I drew a sequence diagram on a whiteboard I instinctively tried to drag and drop a box to another location. I was sorely disappointed.
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Does this remind anyone else of that Robert Heinlein story, Life-Line [1]? In it a scientist builds a machine that can accurately predict the day someone will die, and the trouble that comes from that.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-Line
Lynx (and/or Links) is my #2 browser for day-to-day traffic.
I sail on merchant ships and Lynx is my primary browser on extremely slow and laggy satellite connections at sea. You really need to curate what sites you will use with it because most modern sites degrade to unusable. But when you find one that does degrade gracefully, it can be a better experience to use Lynx than a modern browser. I like Lynx so much that I sometimes use it ashore.
Shout out to Seagate, every drive that my friends and I have bought from them have eventually failed, good to see that they fail in non-consumer use too, not just me! Stick to the Western Digitals.
Another cool thing they did, is they built a Sandstorm.io app back in the day. There hasn't been enough interest for them to invest a lot of resources in updating it, but I still use draw.io on my self-hosted Sandstorm server too.

I've followed draw.io back since I met them at Google I/O in like 2010 or 2011, I think they were one of Drive's first third party apps.
To be quite frank I’m happy google doesn’t ban websites outright if it determines the service isn’t useful. There are already enough things google censors without merit, I could only imagine they’d abuse this too
Vaping-related lung transplant performed at Detroit hospital
The narrative is that the app using the camera is a bug. I don't know what to think about that yet. On one hand, I expect Facebook (and many other things) to spy on users in every way possible. On the other, it seems to be the rear facing camera being activated and I would think they'd get more value out of the front facing camera. Who knows though. Guess it's time to go all Snowden on my phone. Or maybe just full RMS...
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Similar experience for me and we are the same age. I don’t feel cheated per say but I agree we had less opportunity available to us and less ability to affect change.

The thing to remember is that we are a small generation sandwiched between two big ones (baby boomers and millenials). We never got to move the needle as much culturally as these two generations did.

The boomers set the rules, which we begrudgingly followed. And the millenials are breaking the rules and we have to roll with that too.

Sometimes it feels like we are caught between both worlds, and forced to choose a side where we only agree with them 50% of the time.
The Unsolved Mystery of the Medallion Fund’s Success
>I have no ... recourse.

In theory, you could sue ASCAP for damages and/or injunctive relief. Perhaps for libel, for grossly negligently communicating a false and disparaging claim about you to YouTube. Perhaps for tortious interference with business relations. But unfortunately, winning such a lawsuit likely requires an expensive lawyer, and sometimes you can only get as much justice as you can afford to buy.
Just dont use his products.
Fallout 3 has that great bit in the vault tec exhibit with scruffy bloodstained walls and flickering lights. Great environmental story telling. You expect an ambush to occur but it never does.