skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pickling is a protocol to serialize Python objects. In scikit-learn that would be serializing an Estimator.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html
https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/model_persistence.ht...
The business behind this is a Washington State corporation - LA INVESTORS LLC. Is there anyway to find the names of the investors behind this business? The least we can do is expose the scammers responsible for this
Same scams exist for:

Hotels (when you're booking, are you SURE you're booking with
the actual hotel?) They may be collecting money to simply reserve the room under your name, but not pay for it - even if they just charged you the same amount. A $119 charge to call the hotel and put in your name.

Health Insurance (When you enter your phone number/email/name there are companies that simply collect money by re-sending your contact info to about 100 sub-scam companies. You may end up with insurance but through the worst types of people that have resold and resold. Oh and don't forget you'll be on some of the WORST robocalling services.

Pretty much all CC fraud "watch" services - especially if your own credit card company signed you up. Taking out a line of credit, if it was not valid - is already something you are protected against. If you have someone to "watch" that stuff for you, it's not really protecting you further.
Caseless ammunition, or telescoping ammunition (or both at the same time.) Either could conceivably increase how much ammunition soldiers can carry, but I'm not holding my breath for either.

The status quo seems firmly in "good enough" territory and I'm pretty sure some of the other supposed benefits of caseless will fail to manifest. In particular, advocates of caseless ammunition have on occasion claimed that guns would be simplified by not having to eject brass, but I don't think that's true since said guns would still need a reasonable way to eject chambered but unfired ammunition (even if it was open-bolt.)
In my experience, DDG search results are worse, not better, and people who say otherwise are mental or lying.

I discovered the other day that DDG uses Bing for image searching because without safe searching enabled it randomly returns tons of pornography for innocuous searches like "filled torus".
> which may be Netflix's only prayer

Isn't Disney projecting to get like 10-20% of subscribers compared to that of Netflix in five years? Why are people talking like Disney streaming is such a big thing?
Yes, any for-profit company has to believe in making money. However I think they could make a lot more by being stingy with their code. Ansible for example had a lot of paying customers that no longer had to shell out after it went open source. I (and many people/companies I know) would likely pay for RHEL if CentOS weren't a thing. There's plenty of opportunities for a cash grab if that were Red Hat's thing.
> #7 [...] table layout

> yeah, it's on a live production site still running

like HN. :)
Not sure, but it's basically about how you shouldn't SSH from compromised machines because those can have "ControlMaster auto" in OpenSSH config to by pass authentication to the hosts you SSH to. That means the next time you SSH from that compromised host they will open another connection without having to use a password.
I think poor satire is to blame for being buried, not snopes. When the lines are blurred between misinformation and satire, and a relatively unknown satire website with an obvious agenda produces articles that walk that line, maybe they have it coming because simply put, they aren't very good.
It's still meaningful to discuss 99.99% on top of things that are around 99.99%.

For example, let's say you have a service on AWS and all your clients are on AWS. If AWS is down, you are down but so are your clients. But your clients want you to be up 99.99% of the time that AWS is up. As long as both sides are aware of the implications, this is fine.

As long as you're within the same order of magnitude, it can make sense. If a customer wanted me to be up 99.99% of the time on top of a service that is only up 99.9% of the time, I would push back.
If you're looking for a fantastic diagramming site, I would recommend checking out [Whimsical](https://whimsical.com/). I've tried out a lot of solutions over the years (draw.io, LucidChart,Gliffy, etc.). Whimsical is the first that really nails the UI/UX. You spend less time fighting the system to make something that looks great and more time just building out your diagram.

I'm not associated with the product at all, but it definitely needs more love in the space.
I get a lot of ads from Boeing. They want to sell a military helicopter. No joke. I don’t think the targeting works all that well. (It’s Twitter, not insta though)
The Little Schemer is a mind bender and short read. I would highly recommend it to any programer as something you should read ASAP. You’ll regret not reading it sooner if your unfamiliar with the concepts.

Structure and Interpretations of Computer Programs is very good. It was MITs old CS textbook, it’s still highly relevant. It takes a while to get through and you probably would get the most value out of it if you already have a lot of programming experience.

I also recommend Programming in Haskell by Graham Hutton 2nd Edition (Don’t get the 1st edition). It will warp you mind to think in a functional way. I would put it up there with K&R in terms of how well written it is.

I’m a student at a “Java school,” reading these has made me far better than my peers at programming.

Paul Graham has a lot of good essays on programming too, as well as life stuff.
There are extensions (at least for Firefox, but I think Chrome has those too) to always redirect to old reddit.
What I said is true, regardless of what Breitbart does.
How can you tell whether or not this is a google search issue or an internet landscape issue?
We save the state of an object (an instance of a class with a predict() method) to disk once we have a model that we are happy with. During deployment we copy this file to a server which loads the file from disk and restores the state of the object on the remote machine.

We use dill[0], but there are other similar libraries.

[0] https://pypi.org/project/dill/
Kirby looks interesting[1], and the $109 flat-fee license shouldn't be too much for most businesses, it is probably more than most individuals would pay to set up their holiday photo blog etc. I wonder if they considered a free-for-noncommercial license? I guess they do let you run it locally to see if it works for you, which is friendly.

1: https://getkirby.com/
They also many other very useful shortcuts. For example !gm is google maps, !gsch is google scholar, !arx is arxiv.org, !w is wikipedia.

There’s a lot that I don’t know: DuckDuckGo.com/bang should have others
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21516565
Kenyan stowaway who fell into London garden identified
This is a low effort post inconsistent with reality. You are simply incorrect.
To expand on this, capabilities allow us to go further than pledge(2): it enables selective forwarding of capabilities to other nanoprocesses, such as only forwarding a handle to a single file out of a directory, or a read-only handle from a read-write one, etc...
They're pretty much all guest articles now. It's just an excuse.

Same tactic as NYT publishing so much under "opinion."
I agree. The SEO wars have utterly destroyed all usefulness.
Why not? How many customers do you think Disney lost for its morning disruptions? I'd guess basically zero.
He's following his own advice by describing his ideas "via negativa" :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile#Via_negativa

Lots of descriptions on the web:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=taleb%20via%20negativa (google seems to have mutilated its URL, so using bing)

In other words, positive knowledge and negative knowledge aren't symmetrical. It helps to say why people are wrong (although if you want to say he's rude and offputting about it, I won't disagree, although I've gotten past it)

There are also a lot more ways to be wrong than to be right. So describing why people are wrong could take a lot of space in the book, and still be valuable.
> Systemd is not the OS.

Certainly seems to want to become it.
Yes. We know that WebAssembly in its present form doesn't yet have all the functionality we'll want to make all this efficient, so we're active in many areas in the WebAssembly standards process helping move it forward.
I guess the question is: Is it harder now because of changes google made or harder now because of changes to the internet (There is so much more content now to search and filter).
Try ALT+m to toggle monochrome mode.
The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android phone runs well – for a beta
Kway makes more intuitive sense to me; it's like the word quail.
I find it interesting that Californian are disliked so much. California is made up of ALL walks of life. Every nationality comes to California and many leave after they see just how expensive it is to live .
What I don’t understand with the way the Boisians mindset is, the locals don’t like that the prices are going up. Who is selling their homes at premium prices? Locals cashing in on the supply and demand. Yes, your neighbors and friends.
The question really should go to your government, what are you doing to help with this supply and demand that is driving the prices up? Why aren’t wages going up as there should be an abundance of construction jobs building new homes to help with demand.
Not all Californian are rich, just middle class people who have been taken out of the housing market in California by those coming into California. We don’t all agree with the way Californian is being run so we want a better way of life, just like those in Boise. Again your anger should be directed at your government officials. What are the doing to help with the cost of living there
The hotel brands I stay at (Hyatt/Hilton/Marriott/etc) offer the cheapest pricing directly on their website, with best price guarantees giving discounts or free nights if another website offers it for cheaper. I've never seen it cheaper anywhere else though, so I'm pretty sure they have their computer systems configured not to allow it to happen.

And I reserve a cancelable price so that I can always see if they lowered the price before the cancelation deadline, sometimes yes, sometimes not.

Even if I wasn't staying at a brand that offered a best price guarantee, I would still contact them and offer them the chance to win business directly by being lower than the aggregator and avoid paying commission.
You mean something like these? (not "tower" though)

https://www.addonics.com/category/sda.php
Hey-uh, is there anything we can do about this awful paywall? Perhaps the devs should add a thing to all WSJ articles to bypass.
Schiff is not the actor I'd choose to rest my case on.
hi Aaron,
We did exactly what works for you into a open source python library, github.com/bentoml/bentoml.

It packages your model for you into a standardized format, that you can use it in multiply serving scenarios online serving with api endpoint, offline serving with spark udf, CLI access or import it as python module. It also helps you deploy to different platform such as lambda, sagemaker and others.

Our value is from model in notebook to production service in 5 mins. Love to hear your feedback on this. You can try out our quick start on Google colab (https://colab.research.google.com/github/bentoml/BentoML/blo...)
I believe you can restate this as: With a sufficient number of users, all bugs will eventually become features. I spent many years maintaining an old system with spaghetti-like structure and thousands of users. When attempting to design fixes to known problems I would often dig up odd code that looked like it could not possibly be correct. When I pointed out the odd behaviors that resulted from the suspect code to managers or other programmers somewhat familiar with the system, they just about always advised to never change anything just because it looked bad, no matter how bad. The question, "Bug or feature?" is meaningless in such a situation.
Disclaimer: I'm from the Enarx project (https://enarx.io) which is associated with the BytecodeAlliance.

I think a good analogy is: wasmer is to qemu as BytecodeAlliance is to rust-vmm.

Wasmer is a general purpose WASM runtime. But BytecodeAlliance is a place to build tooling for the construction of runtimes (WASM or otherwise), including special purpose runtimes. I think there is a lot of space for both in the growing non-browser WASM market.
no ability to exfiltrate data

As we've learned with things like rowhammer and Spectre, this is a very high bar. How does this initiative plan to deal with side-channel attacks?
2D cinema may not be a culmination, but the last 100 years of 3D movies makes it pretty clear that it will never be more than a sideshow with occasional sparks of brilliance. The experience isn't good enough.
> For example, you often get no feedback after job interviews.

Because sometimes you're not hired because the person interviewing you can't imagine spending eight hours a day sitting across from someone who laughs like you do. We have increasingly open offices and then pretend that jobs are won and lost based on depersonalized notions of merit, completely without reference to the individuals who have the merit. Since we have to keep up the pretense of professionalism in the workplace, and can't, for example, walk over to someone and say that, while laughing is perfectly laudable, your specific laugh reaches into my skull and attempts to pith me by slow degrees, it's better to head those things off early.
Digg vs. Reddit
I think of it as a rule of five. Takes five times as much effort to design the production process as it does to design the product. And five times that to put it into production.

The number five is fungible depending on volume and similarity to existing products. It's why a hobbyist in his garage can design a product but can't commercialize it.
Challenging Nvidia, Intel unleashes three new chips for AI work
How are any of you guys reading this with their horrific paywall?
Yeah, I've been giving DDG a try for the last few weeks again. For "I want to look for keywords" I use DDG and find it does well. For "I want to search a structured database", Google still wins because of its above-the-fold no-article "this is what you're looking for" results.

Like, if I type a math formula or "what's the population of Alberta", the Google result is just the number, not a link to the result.

Or if I want to search for a product or local business.
On the other hand, almost everyone I know who does scientific python in grad school loves miniconda...
To find your dream career, try studying salamanders in isolation
Fill them with glitter! Much messier than dirt when they get opened.
Very little. By one estimate jets burn about 10% of fuel to reach _cruising altitude_. [1] Unless the catapult got you up to altitude it would not help much. Catapults solve a different problem, namely taking off from a short runway.

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-much-fuel-is-burned-during-take-of...
As a solo founder, I have almost everything mentioned in this article set up, except CI/CD. I can certainly see its value, but being able to easily take down parts of my production system and replace them with instrumented variants is very useful to me when things go wrong. I find that CI usually gets in the way of this. Maybe it's just a bad habit that I need to ditch :)
> Dhclient has a lot of hooks where you could easily stick a script or binary to report back to systemd what the state of the network config is.

So you're advocating making systemd even bigger and dependent on more stuff?
Anything that involves creating hassle and inconvenience for scammers is time well spent in my opinion!
> 2. Always work (note, write) from your own interest, never from what you think you should be noting, or writing. Trust your own interest. I have a strong interest, at the moment, in Roman building techniques, thus my notation above, taken down in the Cluny Museum in Paris. My interest may pass. But for the moment I follow it and enjoy it, not knowing where it will go.

> Let your interest, and particularly what you want to write about, be tested by time, not by other people—either real other people or imagined other people.

> This is why writing workshops can be a little dangerous, it should be said; even the teachers or leaders of such workshops can be a little dangerous; this is why most of your learning should be on your own. Other people are often very sure that their opinions and their judgments are correct.

It's great to see someone who's so often referenced within the institutions of creative writing note their inherent limitations. I think one ought to have healthy skepticism about the proposition that someone can teach you an art form. They can help facilitate your growth, I suppose, but not impart the skill.
This is a critical issue that could throw the whole economy into a recession. Fixing this and the recent prevalence of foreign, disease carrying mosquitos are the two biggest policy issues, that if fixed will cause a world of good.
An article like the CNN industrial washer story would clearly not be believed by a significant percentage of people.

I'm sure it wouldn't be believed by a significant percentage of people, but "no reasonable person would believe this" has never been Snopes's standard. If you take a meander through their whole database, there are a lot of articles that will make you go "come on, who would even ask about something this stupid?".
More specifically, adopt a 3-2-1 scheme for data you care about: store it in three places, two onsite but on different media, and 1 offsite. Backblaze is probably as good a choice as any for offsite storage, Tarsnap is also really popular here.
Related from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15029989

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6464495

2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4947820
Some of those I like - the autocorrect is excellent, for example. But the "synonyms" I find often frustrating.
> In what ways is Lucidchart worse in functionality?

draw.io is like the In-N-Out of charting software. The menu is short, but you know exactly what you're getting each time and the price is right. It may not be the best at everything, but I'm almost never disappointed.

Lucidchart feels like that neighborhood restaurant that has a six page menu that tries to be everything to everyone. It feels like they should have anything I desire, but they're spread so thin across so many options that they can never really perfect any of the individual entrees. I can usually find something in Lucidchart that looks like it would solve my problem, but it always feels half-finished. I waste hours each month learning to work around the quirks and limitations of the different components. I always leave slightly dissatisfied that Lucidchart almost did what I needed, but due to the limitations of the component I would have been better off just drawing a simple chart in draw.io or even in Sketch.

For example: The Lucidchart iPad app sounds like a dream come true. I would love to make charts on the go with a great iPad interface that properly utilizes the Apple Pencil. However, every time I use Lucidchart on iPad I spend all my time accidentally moving the page when I wanted to drag the corner of box, failing to select text for editing, switching between fingers and Pencil, and so on. I end up walking back to a computer to finish the chart. I want to believe the Lucidchart iPad app would be great, but I always spend so much time fighting it that I'd be better off sitting down with draw.io and making a basic chart in 10 minutes.
I also use uMatrix and probably with stricter settings than you do (* * * block) and also NoScript. I don't know what you're doing wrong; I load it just fine by following the exact instructions I said: prepend the URL with `about:reader?url=` and go. Page loads fine.
Huh, I'm realizing with your comment that I was doing that and not really aware of that. Now that I think about it, my information, depending on subject, typically comes from either reddit, wikipedia, or stackoverflow, and I just use google to find the exact page on those websites that I need.
Doesn’t Heroku also sound similar to a co-working space? As far as I understand that Heroku is a miniature EC2 that is not cost-efficient at scale. Same goes with coworking space, there’s only a limited a company can grow in a defined space. After consuming co-working’s capacity, the company is on its own.
Docker is technically explained correct but its analogy with a co-working space doesn’t sound perfect to me.
Yeah, but there's a good chance the parent poster is worth more the $7.50 ARPU to Twitter. They can also probably increase their ARPU more than they can increase a hypothetical subscription cost, which is why these comments about ad-based companies providing a subscription service aren't actually these no-brainer ideas.

Now with that being said, it would be nice if companies cared more about having sustainable businesses with healthy, non-intrusive user experiences than revenue growth.
I usually get modded down for this, but that's why I insist MailChimp, etc. is a spammer. Most of what they send the recipient never explicitly asked for. Anybody who sends out more automated mail than they have incoming transactions is spamming. Any email that doesn't reference the exact transaction that authorized it is spam.
Java was wildly successful. It was kicked out of browsers because of its huge attack surface. WASM implementations seem to be going with a sandbox approach out of the gate.
Not defending the article (I’ve not read it), but I suppose I probably would be horrified with the status quo. I really wish we had a more consent based data culture. I suppose I don’t know how that would be designed. But lots of real things are horrifying and it’s not necessarily fine just that something is normal.
No because I don’t have to take ownership for choices I have no control over.

I don’t have to block them because some site will still funnel it to them as a middle man. All blocking indirect access to my data will achieve is me wasting time thinking I can.

I can directly avoid their services and personally generate no emotional buy in, staying indifferent to their literal existence, and politically flexible then on Sanders or whoever taxing them billions.

The only framework that has social merit/weight, IMO is the legislative one. Not a corporations interest in gaming our agency for their feudal trade schemes.

I don’t believe in any of this or whatever obligations others say I have. I’ll politically support ones that seem sensible: m4a, education, engineering at scale to support those initiatives.

Outside that the reasons for providing institutional support of trade seem contrived. The ideology of long dead men exported into the limbic systems of the living.
The Can't Be Evil Sandbox
That shift happened in Bootstrap 3's lifetime. The 3.4.1 navbar markup [1] and 3.3.7 navbar markup [2] is very similar to 4.x, but most of the semantic stuff and ARIA stuff is missing in 2.3.2 [3].

(I probably paid a lot more attention in 3.x documentation than most because of the mistake in a past life of forking Bootstrap 3 for an enterprise project and trying to keep it in sync with upstream. Never again would I consider doing that.)

[1] https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.4/components/#navbar

[2] https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/components/#navbar

[3] https://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/components.html#navbar
The lack of explanation is intentional because they dont want people gaming the system and getting around the filters. That's the idea anyway.
Not necessarily. Some of it is bad, certainly.

But a lot just turns on being juxtaposed against a prerequisite belief that's not universal. If you don't share that belief, it won't be funny to you. That doesn't (necessarily) make it bad satire.