skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, it doesn't pass your smell test...

If there was another referendum today, and the people were given an option today, what do you think they would vote for?

You never hear from Crimeans complaining about the referendum result in any way.

Those people dodged a huge bullet and they know that. Ukraine is a mess, and perhaps one day when the fighting in Ukraine ends, when the corruption ends, someone should ask those people what they want to do.
Iran is in Israel's and Saudi Arabia's cross hairs. It is my feeling that the US is mostly antagonistic to Iran because of the influence of these two regional rivals of Iran.
A few years ago I was forced to put my cat down due to a neighbors dog attacking her.

I took her to an emergency vet and spent over $3k trying to save her, but at some point it became obvious that we couldn't and so the decision was made to put her to sleep.

Throughout all of this I was upset and worried, but not overly so. In my mind, I cared about her, but it was still just a cat.

Until they put her in my arms. I remember she looked up at me and started purring and I just completely lost it. I'm not one who can cry in front of other people, but at that moment I couldn't help it.

It took months before I stopped turning around expecting her to be there. When it first happened my girlfriend made a comment about killing the dog. I know she didn't mean it, she was just angry and lashing out. She still can't look at a picture of her without crying.

Reading the description of Augustus brought it all back.

I basically don't have a relationship with that neighbor. I haven't gone into detail, but that neighbor was either malicious or dumb. I chose to believe dumb because that sort of anger does no one any good but I can't bring myself to build any sort of relationship with the man.

I miss my programming buddy.
Maybe in Siberia? I can’t find anything for, say, Ukraine to suggest it averaged -30 for months
Fwiw some studies show that young doctors have better outcomes. Maybe because they have been to medical school more recently, when evidence based techniques were taught with more rigor. E.g. https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2286. Now this study only concerns hospitalists, and it's just one study, so it shouldn't make you avoid older doctors necessarily. But definitely what there is no data for is a bias against younger doctors.
On paper, yes, but in practice, there is significant lag time between a new noem being established and conservatives giving up the old one in favor of the new normal. For example, being against gay marriage (as opposed to it being a non-issue) is still seen as the conservative opinion despite pro-gay-marriage being the plurality opinion for eight years and an outright majority for six[0]. Further, since economic deregulation is seen as the conservative stance, being in favor of abolishing the minimum wage labels someone as a conservative, despite it being nationally established for seven decades.

[0] https://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/changing-attitudes-on-ga...
There’s always prior art. The question is how similar the prior art is.
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Australia is burning, its government doesn't seem to think anything is wrong, they just want to dig more coal
> Biden said Monday during a campaign event in New Hampshire. "Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for god's sake!"

Jeff Dean is so good that Joe Biden thinks it would take two random coal shovelers to do his job.
I'll contribute my anecdata, and state that the One Medical doctor I've seen was great.
Is this just MiTM’ing a known good instance?
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I'm not a lawyer, but disclosing prior art is 1) your obligation, and 2) strengthens your patent if it's granted. If an existing method is cited in the patent, and the patent is approved, it means the patent office has declared that the cited method is officially recognized as not being prior art.

If you look at a patent and say: "This isn't valid because of patent X," but you see patent X in the list of citations, then it means the patent office has already said: "Oh yes it is."
Or laws/taxes are passed, which incorporate the externalities, and subventions for detrimental efforts are cut.
That is "just" a matter of political will.
"...for kind people return kindness with kindness."

Some would argue that if you're treating kindness like a transaction, where acts are done with expectation of reciprocity, then it isn't really kindness.
I think it is broader than that. Maybe it is becoming a cliche already, but I think being able to code is a new literacy that everyone should learn even if they are not going to become software engineers or computer scientists. It's just such a useful skill now and more so in the future. I think the author doesn't get that.
I can't wait until society swaps the meaning of left and right through memes
I don't know.

You have a service and give it a role that has some permissions. If you want to have the minimal permissions probably would at least end up with services*2 roles&policies if you write a custom policiy for every role, so the service can't do more than needed.

I mean, you could probably calculate one role and one policy for all the stuff that runs, to make it really simple, but I don't think this will make it secure.

But, yes, I don't like IAM either.

I read some people don't even use it anymore, but I didn't find out what they are doing instead.
A fancy word for “hosting for modern web/app”
This isn’t basic loop unrolling; it’s replacing an entire loop with a closed form mathematical formula.
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You’re right about Neovim’s effect on Vim improvements and lighting a fire in Bram.

Even if neovim goes belly-up (unlikely), or totally diverges (slightly less unlikely), they’ve done a huge service to the vim community simply by existing and offering compelling, thoughtful enhancements while respecting the core spirit of vim - and being exceptionally mindful of practicality in how they approach changes.

Probably one of the best-ever examples of a fork that is Doing It Right.
Good. Something smarter than humans might come along next.
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Managed hosting is used in at least two different ways:

* As a synonym for dedicated hosting. E.g. you rent a machine, and run what you want on it. And have to patch stuff etc.

* As a separate tier of service above dedicated hosting where the hosting provider is responsible for running the services on the machine. Some managed hosting providers will take responsibility for scaling too, though often it will be a semi-manual process.

Managed hosting in this second sense is to serverless what dedicated hosting is to "regular" cloud instances.
>I was growing up here in the 90s; we had solid -30 Celsius winters for several months.

Where? In your imagination?

https://weatherspark.com/h/y/148642/1990/Historical-Weather-...

https://weatherspark.com/h/y/148509/1990/Historical-Weather-...

https://weatherspark.com/h/y/148455/1990/Historical-Weather-...

https://weatherspark.com/h/y/148594/1990/Historical-Weather-...
What are your creative uses for IRC?
The internet is not what it once was. It makes me sad to think of how amazing it use to be, and that we will never get that internet experience back.

So for 2020, I started up a fresh IRCd where this year, I will attempt to live inside IRC clients. I want to do everything I possibly can to stay away from browsers and apps. I want to get creative with IRC, I want to use bots and channels for every menial task I can think of.

Whats are your interesting, handy, fun, creative uses for IRC?
Have you got scripts/bots/descriptions you are willing to share?
That's not great, specially if you're not connecting it to the cell network.

We had a Nexus 4, IIRC, for our on call sysadmins, that would be always connected to the network but mostly sleeping, as it only was waiting for push notifications. It lasted around 4 or 5 days without charging! No software installed except for Pushover, of course.
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With respect to health care, you may be able to make such educated decisions, almost no one else can. There isn't enough signal, and almost no one has the ability to distinguish signal from noise, and correctly interpret it.

What happens is that when given the opportunity, business will pollute the market with proxy signals (like brand trust, or fear based selling) that people instinctively respond to.

These proxy signals will be subject to manipulation by well-capitalized actors and will not in general reflect outcomes or value. They will interfere with the fundamental signal, making it even harder to detect and interpret.

Therefore the market will not work, in the sense of delivering the best outcomes for costs.

(Note that I am strictly speaking of healthcare, where even experts are often unsure of causal relationships and the relative value of various therapies. In general I think markets are a wonderful thing. Here is an experiment to try... take a mild condition treatable by OTC medication, such as the symptoms of colds, allergies, etc, and see how long it takes you to identify, characterize and factor the available therapies, and then map this to available products. Evaluate interactions, cautions, effectiveness, risk, convenience, costs, etc. Now ask yourself, where did you get your information? Who did you have to trust? Why did you trust them? Is the basis for your trust and understanding available to the average person?

I've done the experiment. My conclusion is that healthcare large and small is not like other goods.)
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Is this an accidental quine? That's so cool.

[Quine]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_%28computing%29
"Move fast, break things" works well when iterating quickly and cheaply in an unknown space.

Chip design is not one of those cases.
I think it'll still deliver what publishers want until that number's under a week.

New releases are big money. The biggest money.

It'd be nice to see them formally acknowledge this by republishing DRM-free copies after 90 days.
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It's an annoying marketing term, sure enough, but the ideas it names aren't terrible. It's not always a mistake to pay someone else to take care of maintenance, scaling and security.

Perhaps managed service would be better?
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Duh. Science will figure it out and 'the last tree' will never be cut down.

Science along with capital is un-poisoning rivers, making fishing sustainable, and greenifing forests while eco-attention freaks do nothing but protest.
But people do spend an extremely large portion of their lives on them
One part that the author doesn't go into in detail is that low-latency interaction makes it much harder to be location-anonymous when an adversary can experiment on your service. Of the three examples given in the article, only Silk Road has tried to be location-anonymous by being exclusively available with Tor onion services. But for Silk Road and several other dark markets, it didn't work out because investigators were eventually able to locate the infrastructure.

I haven't looked into how that happened in detail, and I think it was quite varied in practice in each case, but there are known methods to take advantage of the low-latency thing to experiment on services and draw conclusions about where their infrastructure is located. One example is to try to attack different parts of the Internet (different links or different colocation facilities, for example, maybe by overloading them with a DDoS or trying to partition them from the Internet with a BGP routing attack) and see which ones cause the service's availability to suffer when they're under attack. When a service is available in real time, this kind of experiment is much more practical because it's possible to see directly whether each individual attack has had an impact.

I think Freenet has something along the lines of the author's zine concept, where people can publish signed pointers to the latest revision of a document or set of documents.
The camera’s the main thing keeping me on smartphones. My iPhone 7 Plus is a better camera (for me) than anything but maybe a newer iPhone, and also entirely replaces a document scanner. May drop the data plan though, go WiFi-only.
You are a billionaire or in prison in the US?
Loops are not expressions in python.
> WebRTC tunneled over WebRTC

Mind elaborating a bit? What kind of use case requires this?
I’m with you - I had to ask my wife to change my Twitter password and not tell me. Facebook was easier. When I have to access for local community things I use Firefox Focus. It’s still addictive, but my sessions are fewer. That said, I’m still on here and a few other places (craigslist for sale stream, anyone?) as placeholders. I wouldn’t say it is hours per day, but it was more time than I wanted.

I’ve found productive addictions include things like ear training, Duolingo, etc - they replace the tactile sensation and give you that quieter time to yourself but at least you’re learning.
Android was at 22.7% in 2010. It was growing like crazy.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2512940/android-smartp...
If only they had thrown in an anti-Russia propaganda in there they would've had me! /s we are way to easy to play with..
> When will incentives ever be aligned with one's own long term interests?

Once we've installed a good global governance system (imo some form of confederation of confederation ala Switzerland) that democratically aggregates preferences and can align the incentives.

People like to act like competition is inevitable, forgetting that the main hegemon of the last 50 years has competition as a large part of it's ideology (and all the runner ups are not democratically legitimised in the sense people in Europe or the US would consider enough). It's not a law of physics, it's part of a system that can be changed.

So I'd disagree. The time for despair is when you are dead, or can no longer try to improve things. Now there's work to do
I think SciKit learn and Keras represent a decent level of abstraction for most real world use cases. You end up wanting a decent amount of control for most tasks.

More abstract would give you tools called things like AutoML and they do work, but you may have a hard time improving on what they do. They are an area of active research.
> ou spend $500 - $1500 on a device that can't be expected

no, you just buy a model 2 years after its on the market and you pay a fraction of the initial price.
> So I don't see how wealth distribution can solve anything. Even if we equalize wealth and prices at a same time, free market will quickly spiral down to similar pricing that we have today (things are barely purchasable, or not at all).

Could you explain how you got to that conclusion? It does not seem logical to me at all.

Current prices are in part a result of high inequality: It makes economic sense to sell a house for 10x the median income because they are still groups of people so high above the median that they can afford to pay that price - and of course as a business you'd very much like to sell to those people if in any way possible.

In a society with more equal income, the highest price for which you could find a buyer would likely be a lot closer to the median.
> You're quibbling over semantics.

Not at all. He’s accurately reflecting gun laws and car laws. You are willfully hand waving the fact that cars are entirely unregulated except for use on public roads. As where guns are regulated in every facet of their existence.

You are doing this because you read on a liberal site and heard the liberal talking points that guns are easier to get than a car with is wrong.

It’s not semantic, your argument is invalid.
I think we need a worldwide, federated identity system.

There should be multiple identity providers, mostly governments and organizations who already have lots of info about you, for example banks. This already works in Poland and several other european countries. Such organizations should verify that you are you the way they currently do, and give you a way of authorizing yourself, i.e. sms, mobile app, one time passwords etc. If someone needed to verify your identity, they would go through your chosen org for authentication. This approach has several benefits.

1. You can provide as much or as little info as you want.
The info you provide could include true/false assertions. For example, a porn website could just ask the org whether your age >= 18, without the need to know your exact birthdate,. Same for citizenship, disability, criminal record etc.

2. You can easily integrate that with other services, for example payments or even a secure communication channel, letting companies contact you without learning any details about you. There could even be a secure shipping service, where the company selling you the product only gets a special qr code to stick on the package,. Only one shipping company would get your real address, the rest would just know the next leg of the route.

3. You could provide instant "not a robot" verification, without any captchas, without any personal data and without any hassle. The authorizing org would just give the requestor a token, different for each visit, that they could send with a "add to blacklist request". The next time a blacklisted user would try to log in to that service, their org would refuse to provide the token.

4. Ability to provide legal accountability without rewealing anything. The authenticating org would just provide a token to a service. The user could do whatever they wished, but, in case they'd do something illegal, the police could just force the org to actaully reveal who was behind that token.

Of course, the system would have to be regulated by a global body of governments or organizations. Each org would have certain resoponsibilities, i.e. allowing you to port your id to somewhere else, not requesting more data than necessary, honoring blacklists etc. If that system existed, implementing a safe, seamless online and real0-life experience would be trivial. Just imagine if it would be trivial to trace each website, each comment, everything to a real person with a court order, while not giving most companies any data whatsoever.
That is actually fucking great. I don't know if that Necasek guy reads HN, but thanks!
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SteamOS! That's what I was trying to remember. IMHO, that's what game companies need to do- cooperate on a reference platform and build for that. If users want to game on Linux, then they will also adopt the platform.

On the other hand, there just might not be a viable Linux gaming market.
How do you objectively determine "areas of high crime"? That's a core problem. We don't have data on the actual incidence of crime, only data filtered through the justice system.
It is called "burning bridges".
We have in fact already passed a couple of those tipping points, unfortunately. But we can still make a big difference by getting our act together.
But, some of those are already locked in, we might not see the effect for 1000 or even 10000 years, but still.
Tmux has pipe-pane, and it has -I and -O to go both directions.

It does require some gyrations to get around the fact that it logs everything (the command itself, terminal control, etc), and not just what's output by the command. Here's a quick and dirty example:

a) Start a tmux session to a remote host

b) On the local host, run this (assuming session 0):

$ tmux pipe-pane -o -t0 "tail -n +2 | col -b | base64 -d > ~/output"

$ tmux send-keys -t0 "base64 /some/file && read" Enter

$ tmux pipe-pane -t0

$ tmux send-keys -t0 Enter

You should now have ~/output on the local host, which is identical to /some/file on the remote.
And, if anybody doubts, it's sure that we are losing forests as we speak:

"World losing area of forest the size of the UK each year, report finds

Chance of ending deforestation by 2030 seems lower than when pledge was made five years ago"

Guardian, Sep 2019:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/12/deforest...
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I think the most important part is not communication, but control flow dependencies on data.
> Once we've installed a good global governance system (imo some form of confederation of confederation ala Switzerland) that democratically aggregates preferences and can align the incentives.

This is wishful thinking with more than half the world not involved in democratic governance. But be of good cheer. There's profit to be made where there's crisis.
Charitable, Ufa in Russia gets pretty close: https://weatherspark.com/h/y/148894/1990/Historical-Weather-...
Could you ELI the difference.
Throwaway, because my professional profile is connected to my main:

You just don't get it. Neither does anyone complaining about $350 for a brick. You're not the audience. This isn't for you.

This is for the people that both; value their time ($350 is less than an hour of work and consequently it would take me more than an hour to properly lockdown my phone) and are looking for absolutely no room for distraction.

I sympathize with the GP, becaue I am exactly like him. The basis for impulsivity is physiological. There is no pre-thought "Oh I want to do this, wait maybe I shouldn't" it's just a pure feeling that moves you to do.

I have had many social media accounts, I've made and deleted them many times. I also have many browser extensions and hosts files to stop myself from visiting known runaway triggers.

It's untenuable. Amphetamines/stimulants help, but the trade-offs are too great.

A week-long retreat can "disconnect" you, but that doesn't mean anything when you come back and jump right back into it.

I've gone so far as to buy a large amount of rural property, have a cabin with basic electricity, where I run a very barebones W500 OpenBSD ThinkPad with satellite internet (2Mbps/s). It can't do any kind of media processing (YouTube, movies, etc.).

It is by far the most productive environment I have ever been in, and I paid for all of this, because that's what I value.

I'm only posting this, because I impulsively turned off mt extensions and went into the HN rabbit hole.
> An Iranian terrorist general constantly plotting cowardly attacks against innocents well deserved assassination by drone outside of his own country.

Let's bomb China, next! All that fentanyl they are shipping over here kills 11,000 per year. Surely they deserve it, too.
Maybe bridge was on fire?
I would buy this for $200, not $350. I still use a Blackberry and look for phones like this but I won't pay $350 for it.

All I want is a phone I can call, text, and listen to audiobooks.
Small staple unix programs, pipes, job control etc are all great ideas.

POSIX shells languages however, are awfully designed (including zsh/fish for historical compatibility with POSIX concepts reasons).

Something close to TCL as a shell would be much better.
How was Mossadeq a democrat when he was starting to pay people off in the Majlis?
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The scripting language is also the configuration. Does it make sense to have non-portable pre-compiled configuration, or configuration that requires a compiler invocation on startup?
The more you understand the architecture, the more absurd it sounds to call it serverless.

Edit: Replying to the below comment... No, it's like calling produce you didn't grow yourself but came from a farm, farmless produce.
It's more than SSH access that you give up though. You have to bend to the paradigm completely or you're really fighting against it.

For one example, I keep running up against wanting to delay an execution of one lambda from another. There are some truly horrible hacks out there to try and achieve that.
They raised like 4 million dollars in crowdfunding, so some people are clearly
willing to pay for it.