skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But once a government starts throwing peaceful protestors into concentration camps I think we can all agree that it has crossed the line, right?

Absolutely. But if you are referring to what's happening in HK, debate on evidence of concentration camp aside, lately many of the protestors have been anything but "peaceful".
Facebook's greatest threat is from Nextdoor, and I can't wait until it happens.
Two Chemistry Professors Arrested for Allegedly Cooking Meth in Arkansas
non-paywall source: https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/honeybees-can-surf-to-saf...
I am in Germany, so I trust my ISP more than I do cloudflare. If mozilla ran their own DNS servers and made Firefox use those, that would be better, but I'd still trust my German ISP, with which I got a contract and which is regulated by German and European law, in particular privacy law. The only thing in favor of mozilla and cloudflare from my particular point of view is that I trust them slightly more not to get massively breached.

Now, if I were in the US, I might arrive at very different conclusions, given how lax consumer protection laws are in general, how the US ISPs have a (recent) history of collecting and selling data and using other dirty tricks (like redirecting NXDOMAIN to their own adservers), and how in many if not most places in the US you have no freedom of choice in ISPs and are essentially subject to an ISP monopoly or duopoly in your area.
Hillary Clinton, is that you?
Sure, we all choose our incentives. Facebook chose to follow money.
DS9 was definitely the darkest of Star Trek series of the era, and made the realities of the Federation seem a bit less rosy. But it was dark relative to the very bright Star Trek baseline; in absolute sense, there's lots of positivity to be found in the series.
Amazon's Fargate grows faster than Kubernetes among AWS customers
Love the team over at 8base, incredible customer support, and an even more impressive product. I really love how easy it is to get up and running. Much better tooling/ui/workflow than appsync/amplify.
I wrote a webmail client (I've apparently long since lost most of the code) to go along with a personal email server I was running about 12 years ago, so it's entirely possible I was just speaking for myself.
Ideally: Podio , excel sheets, other program backend-> Pentaho -> MySQL/MongoDB on Google Cloud, Google Analytics-> R scripting(DBI connections, BigQuery and Hadoop managed through R) -> shiny-proxy, APIs, Hadoop for Big Data computation-> Rmarkdown Reports, shiny-dashboards, a little Tableau and a little Power BI.

MySQL will be moved to Postgres for better Performance soon.
How does this differ from WireGuard?
I don't know if it was only a pretext, probably not only, but Sweden certainly doesn't have a track record of either pursuing rape suspects using the full arsenal of state powers, or of publicly announcing rape allegations as was done in this case.

The accusations might very well be true, but the Swedish prosecutions actions and statements has baffled me from day one.

His legal representation acted quite strange too. I read some court proceedings from some of the UK hearings, among other things the lawyer had called witnesses that had no business being there, it was rather embarrassing to read.
Here's what the RFC[0] says about it:

>Two primary use cases were considered during this protocol's development. These use cases are preventing on-path devices from interfering with DNS operations, and also allowing web applications to access DNS information via existing browser APIs in a safe way consistent with Cross Origin Resource Sharing [...]

[0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8484#page-3
Cement markets are pretty local. It's cheap enough to manufacture and the raw materials are so abundant that it doesn't make sense to transport cement long distances.
Do you have any reason to believe that additional satellites would alter the geometry of the Earth so that they would be visible for longer after sunset?
How about having to check out your luggage, go through security, and check it back in, even when you are just transiting on the way to Europe.

Fly through a big Asian hub and you have none of that BS, modern clean efficient airports with working toilets that can actually flush and better food.

Not a hard decision.
Interesting comparison, because airline pricing is notoriously complicated, resulting in things like hidden-city fares[1] and such considerations as "do we expect to be able to be to sell that seat to some business traveler at the last minute whose only choice is us?"

Furthermore, there are all kinds of unknowns that can happen on the flight.[2]

And yet they still have no problem quoting you a price.

[1] where a flight from A to B costs more than a flight from A to C with a stop in B.

[2] Earlier discussion of whether unexpected events make it comparable to health care: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18719867
puppet masterless is basically the same but ansible is more popular
There are some technical details here, albeit in an advertorial format: http://www.volund.dk/Waste_to_Energy/References/ARC_Amager_B...

The plant is located very close to downtown Copenhagen, and there is no ash issue.
Yeah I used a computer for years with no case, to turn it on all you have to do is briefly short 2 pins on the front panel connector. Although once inside a case it can be pretty awkward to access.
Python program that summarizes the shape of a data structure
Easily switch from duckduckgo to Google with this open source browser extension
I'm waiting for it, but I've already heard rumors that they're taking it in the new direction and don't feel particularly obliged to the original Picard character, so I'm not too hopeful.
At least for me, that's because you can focus with the knowledge that the background noise will never require your attention. The same is not true for open offices, which is where it breaks down for me. Any voice I hear could be trying to get my attention, and I have to pay attention to it in order to realize that it doesn't.
Although waste will be produced, that doesn't mean it's emitted into the air. There is a famous waste burning plant[1] (~6MW) within the city of Vienna, and which is near residential buildings and supplies the nearby general hospital with energy. The waste gases are thoroughly processed and filtered. It emits CO2 of course but it certainly wouldn't be permitted to operate at that location if it produced anything more immediately harmful to the surrounding population.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Müllverbrennungsanlage_Spittel...
THey have slightly different sweet spots, puppet is really good for fixing configuration drift, run it every 30 mins and you know the server will always be in the state you expect.

Ansible tends to be better for jobs you do when a sysadmin wants them done, its really good for scripting repeatable installations, or for doing updates in a consistent fashion on hundreds of machines, adding new users to a bunch of different applications, etc etc.

You can use puppet for ad-hoc jobs, but its not really designed for that it tends to be overly complicated and a bit awkward (imho). You can do drift re-mediation with ansible and run it every 30 mins to fix issues and it will work but its not its real sweet spot.

Personally I would use ansible for both use cases because its simpler, I understand it, and it has a more sysadmin way of thinking, but I know places that use both and that makes sense as well.
Wow, that takes me back. I remember setting up and using all three of the SmarterTools products 15+ years ago. They were fantastic.
Perhaps ML could be applied here to help filter out the barrage of AI snake oil. Funding, anyone?
Well, you don't have to ship a whole browser. You can use the player's. Just do the moral equivalent of

cd www
python -m http.server &
xdg-open http://0.0.0.0:8000

That's how I play RPG Maker MV games.
GMail even considers some emails from Google to be spam. I missed some important (billing and security notification) emails from Google this way.
I think as trade tensions increase with China, there is going to be a huge market opportunity for people in the US to start overtaking some of that business that AliBaba currently owns. As a US based solution, you guys are tapping into a real opportunity here. Good luck.

* Quick idea, you guys should buy a warehouse, stick it in the middle of Odgan Kansas, and charge suppliers to store their stuff there, than ship it for them. With that location you can send almost anything to almost anywhere in the US in 2 days on ground as long as you get it out quickly, and you directly inject it into the carriers hub.
And if those secrets are all there are, what good is a democracy. A democracy can't function in the darkness. What restraint would you advocate in not leaking all secrets? Where would you draw the line? Who should be vetting these papers under such strictly pressured timelines?

On the other end of the spectrum, would you draw the line with Scooter Libby? Would you draw the line with Trump revealing state secrets to Russians behind closed doors?

The double standard between those in power and whistle blowers is out for everyone to see, and there is little that can be done by whistle-blowers to be "careful".
The first FLOSS I ever contributed to was 2.11B News, the standard Usenet software of the day, back in 1985 or so. I ran a Eunice system (a kludge that ran Unix on top of VMS) for a startup, and wanted to get us on Usenet; earlier I had a job at a Navy lab that was on the ARPAnet and felt cut off. Larry Wall (himself) had done some Eunice patches for an earlier version, and I ported them to work on the new system. The only tricky part was faking links, since Eunice didn't support them. 300 baud modems and magnetic tapes by mail were the only way to move your data around.
What’s Up with Russia’s Internet?
Amendment 1: Gives me the right to viciously mock ""In God We Trust" on our money"

(Which is worth a lot more to me than money without some pithy religious crap on it, which realistically impacts me not an iota.)
I agree that HN is not like most social networks, but it also bears resemblance with many other social networks. Largely the ones that are not founded for the reason of profits.

> But it’s important to note that what works for HN likely wouldn’t work for anyone else.

It's also important to note that what does work for HN, might work for others too. We won't know unless we try. Strict moderation is something that helped HN, helped make Flashback (Swedish Forum) tolerable and something many of the greatest subreddits applied with great success. Just an example.
GadgetBridge main website:

https://gadgetbridge.org

Looks interesting, hadn't come across it before.
self-censored, fanboys don't buy it
Didn't know about this, thanks for the link!
Maybe, but then you have a different financial model being played out with it being subscritpion based and no small fee either. This changes how it can be marketed and the pyrimid approach would not supprise me in that once the subscriptions level of, they offer them referal links in which they get $1 a month for people subscribing via their link after their extended trial period of say 90 days.

At least, that is what I would be looking at doing. Certainly the monthly fee is high, so what level they break even in running costs will be lower and may well be that they already break even in running and depreciation of assets -costs. May even be a small monthly profit already. We just don't know.
Looks interesting, but it's not hot enough yet for a lot of industrial processes. E.g. iron melts at ~1500C and this is currently at ~1000C.
Chrome now supports SVG favicons
Is there an easy explanation anywhere of how I can achieve the most secure DNS configuration that is reasonably simple to set up today?

I.e. what's the best I can do, short of hosting my own DNS?
As someone who attended the IMO, I can tell you it varies widely. For some people, they screw around a lot, attend math camp but spend a lot of time playing games, dick around doing normal teenager things, get in trouble for stupid teenager things, don't study too hard, and nevertheless do well enough to attend the IMO. And then some people are responsible, study a lot, work hard, keep their heads down, and also attend the IMO.
Unless the patient is prescribed a controlled substance. Then docs force patients to sign a waiver that enables the police and just any other state agency to take a peek for any reason. Of course, the patient always can refuse to sign the waiver and seek out non-traditional/conventional sources of treatment.

As a lawyer it is shocking to see how far the medical profession has fallen w.r.t. patient privacy.
Wired Opinion: Websites Ask for Permissions and Attack Forgiveness
I suspect noise pollution and dangerous levels of noise will be a future regulatory consideration.

Industrial progress has so far required loud noises, freeways, construction zones etc with little regard to their impact on peace, wellness and hearing.
Thanks so much! Totally understood about the challenges of getting all the right folks to buy in on a large team. I'm here to help.

Would you like me to join your presentation by video call for a demo and Q&A? Also happy to swing by in person in the Bay Area. Just let me know: zack@diez.org
Culturally, should a suicide of an employee that comes from a culture that doesn't put weight on suicide really draw more attention to an issue than before?

Beijing's state policy is freedom from religion and that removes most of the mental failsafes preventing suicide.

My anti-suicide talk with some Chinese people has often been prefaced with "oh yeah our culture typically focuses on self preservation and avoidance of suicide, hope that clears things up for you" before explaining how that person's failure has other options. I wouldn't consider myself anti-suicide when it comes to other people's options, I would consider myself to have just strong self preservation skills and can perceive options for myself and other people that are considering an escape hatch.

So I think there is a cultural component to consider here, for western media wanting to cover this.
TileDB: A Database for Data Scientists
SEC Chairman Cites Fishy Letters in Support of Policy Change
Not OP, but a few tips from my experience:

- Use `requestAnimationFrame`, don't use timers. JS timers are really bad, and they won't sync with monitor refresh rates.

- If possible, avoid lots of canvas calls. For example, if you want to draw something simple like a bunch of boxes on the screen, grab the pixel array from the canvas and manipulate it directly, don't call `ctx.rect` in a for loop.

I once stuck in a quick dozen-line block of code before a demo that just drew a couple hundred tiny pixel stars in the background and occasionally randomized their position. Went back and profiled later and found out it was taking something like 30% of my render time each frame, and refactoring just that one block of code got rid of a bit of stuttering on old hardware.

- On that note, cache stuff in memory. My game is tile-based. At the start of a level, I iterate over the tiles on an offscreen canvas and generate a single, giant image for the entire map. Then for subsequent frames I can render that with a single sprite call, rather than by iterating over every tile.

Caching visual effects is huge. In general, don't be afraid to stick generated effects in RAM, because every call you make to Canvas has an overhead.

- Also on that note, don't be afraid to use multiple canvases. If you have an overlay or a visual effect on top of your main game, and you can just update that without needing to redraw all of your sprites/tiles, that can sometimes be a big performance benefit.
That is true - but I can legally download and keep a copy of all games I own on Steam on my hard drive forever. If they are online games/have DRM the online/activation servers might shut down some day, but every single player game I have should be useable forever. Until my drive fails anyway. Most games have had the DRM cracked. In my mind it's perfectly legal for me to take advantage of that crack to bypass the DRM in a case like this since I have legally purchased and downloaded the product.

I have a number of DRM-free games (from Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, etc) that I have offline copies of. No one can take those away from me by shutting down a service.
Do they talk about why we need to log-in?
Laws to protect astronomy? Really? Talk about the strong needs of the few outweighing the weak-moderate needs of the many. If I was an astronomer I would be pissed, but let’s have some perspective here: vastly more people are going to be helped by this than hurt.

Moreover, this sky pollution has already happened with light and eventually will become a problem with satellites. There’s just no stopping it and we should recognize that things change, sometimes for better or for worse. But mostly, better for some and worse for others.
It's weird, isn't it? It's not like I think the game was total trash, its got high points, but its always baffled me that Metacritic has had it for more than a decade as the highest rated PC game of all time. Was everyone drunk? Paid off?

https://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/all/...
The blame would be at whatever created the universe. Since everything is chained backwards to that moment. You seem to not understand how things happen in reality if you're asking this question.
Thanks, RMacy. Please let us know how to keep improving and we will make it happen.
The Carwash Judge Moro who Bolsonaro appointed as anti-corruption czar turned out to have rigged the whole operation in colluding with other justices - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/alleged-le...

Very similar to the US and elsewhere where the right act in bad-faith to take over democratic processes.
Probably the latter. Because as you say, studios have found their formula and want to stick to it as much as possible to minimise the likelihood a new film/TV series/book/game flops.

This makes perfect sense for a company (since they're almost always very risk adverse), but doesn't work so well if you want more original works or creativity. Entertainment requires outsiders, non corporations, etc to provide at least some of the works there, otherwise you'll get endless sequels, reboots and rehashes until they stop selling.
99% of the time I'm with you 100%. This is the 1% so perhaps I can steal a bit more of your time to understand how to better have the conversation I wanted to have around the subject (and if the answer is "somewhere other than HN" that is fair and fine).

I definitely wasn't trying to start a flamewar, let alone a nationalistic one - I do see an aggressive amount of pro-PRC posts (on other platforms), I have no proof that they're PRC agents other than the fact that they're posting things that one would consider "pro-PRC." I have no proof that similar isn't happening against the PRC on baidu, other than that I don't see it. So is the issue that my post was on too tenuous a thread, based on your data on HN? I certainly didn't mean to imply the presence of shills on HN - I almost never see pro-PRC posts. I specifically called out facebook, twitter, and reddit to avoid that implication.

Perhaps it would have been better to construct my post without mentioning shills at all? I am concerned about the PRC gov's role in communication applications and technology, and I am curious what others (HN crowd particularly because they're almost universally more knowledgeable than me) have to say on the subject.

If the answer to all my ramblings is "don't pin random conspiracy theory shit on the PRC here" that's totally acceptable as well.
> Unlike Facebook, which is data collection being funneled to Western companies and US agencies.

You sound like a good candidate to visit China. Experience the difference between east and west for yourself. Let me assure you, I'm very thankful to live in a Democracy. There isn't parity on this issue.
This is actually a really hard part for me. I immediately began looking at VR hardware I could buy and I wasn't sure what to look at. Can I use non-Valve hardware? I assume with the headset, but I don't know about the controllers. What about the sensors that Valve sells? Do I need them?

The controllers worry me the most since I don't know if they're required or if they need certain buttons I can map things to.

So yeah, right there with you. I hope it's worth trying to buy it all, but it's a big hurdle in a lot of ways so the game has to be amazing.

Lastly, since my life has changed a lot in the last twelve years, I no longer even have a real gaming PC (I assume I'm not the only one who lost that as they aged). So that's one more cost I have to factor unless maybe they release it on PS and I can buy that and it's VR rigging.
Fair, though it doesn't take a very cynical mind to also see that there's a benefit to Apple if I can't double my ram in a couple of years, and instead have to buy a new machine...
To be fair, "even though this feels really good, it is [bad]" is frequently correct. Similar in correctness to "if it tastes really good, it is bad for your health"

Even from a scientific point of view, the ability to refrain from sloth, gluttony, and lust helped give rise to homo sapien's dominance above his fellow animals.
What is worrying is that the article and many other news sources that report on the arrest almost take the allegations as pure fact. There may well be a frame-up or just an overeager prosecutor - how do you even get from a benzyl chloride spill to manufacturing meth (that's manufacturing meth, not manufacturing with intent to distribute).

Elsewhere the blogosphere is very sceptical: http://chemjobber.blogspot.com/2019/11/henderson-state-chemi...
This criticism came up last time too, and I replied that I've been running my own mail server for 20 years off of a DSL line, and I have no trouble sending to anybody (that I've heard of from recipients nor MAILER-DAEMON).

I have DKIM, SPF and no relaying and the only issue in recent memory was when AT&T started bouncing me for some reason. I emailed postmaster@ saying "hey wats up," and the block was removed a day or so later.
Lift the sanctions.
It seems like a lot of things are like that in Ansible. It seems like the preferred way to use it would be with a dynamic inventory, but most of the examples you'll find will have it hardcoded. Or you'd think you would to install it in a virtual environment or docker to deploy it in an isolated environment, but that is not recommended or even super easy to do. It sometimes feels more like you are tricking it into helping you.
Open Source Projects
What are some open source projects that are doing big things but are not very popular/known?
Yeah, I know it's not always intentional, and I understand the need to be able to distinguish between such files. It's just annoying that there isn't a better solution than "all filesystems, forever, must support a problematic use case that serves no good purpose". To be clear, naive solutions would likely be a slippery slope w/ worse side effects. So, on a certain level I feel obliged to apologize for complaining given I can't think of what a solution I'd prefer might look like.
I don't have WhatsApp in a country where practically everybody has WhatsApp, and while I certainly get included in enough things and am not dissatisfied (especially since quite a few have now also installed Signal), I'm also certainly getting left out of a lot of things still.

Again, not that much of a problem to me, but certainly something I wouldn't deny is happening.
Apologies, I meant that I don't see anti PRC shilling on Baidu etc.
There's something that isn't really clear to me:

Would Google still suspect my mail of being spam If I bring my own domain to Gsuite or rackspace (for instance) ?
It seems like at least half the tech people I talk to work with AI now... no matter their field.
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