skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here. Thanks for reading; I was hoping for interesting criticism like this. I don't think that functional programming would have prevented all bugs, or, for that matter, led to better documentation. And I think you're right, there would have been no problem if the system had been documented carefully. I think my point, which I should have made more clearly, is that object oriented languages encourage this kind of programming, leading to systems that are less transparent, while functional languages tend to result in libraries whose mechanisms are less surprising and easier to understand. But surely you're right, it's possible to write confusing code in a functional style as well. And yes, I have worked with large teams on big programs, but that was numerical code, in fortran or C, with old-school scientist/programmers, so neither object oriented nor functional.
Pretty sure this just makes you a fucking moron.
Move fast and break other things
> “To legally say ‘antimicrobial,’ they have to have patents, and they have to be approved through the EPA

Is that true? It sounds strange. How would you patent a copper lining that is not a new mixture, but has been used before in products that need antimicrobial capabilities?
Agreed. It's completely changed my productivity for the better. I don't even remember the code is remote.
Cloud is only good if you don't care about costs and plan to scale without looking back.

For example, building a Ceph based Software Defined Storage with croit.io for S3 comes for 1/10 to 1/5 of the AWS price in TCO. Same goes for any other product in the cloud.

If you only need it a short time up to 6 months, go to the cloud.
If you plan to have the resources longer than 6 months go to Colocation.
Is that the actual goal? Seems like we're well past containment now with infections in the millions. But if death rates are staying low and healthcare has enough capacity, then what does widespread testing accomplish?

Might as well save it for the people who actually get sick and need confirmation for treatment or cause of death.
Cutevariant – Genomics Variation Viewer
Millions of people are out of a job and nobody is hiring. You have to recognise that your situation is much more fortunate than most.
Suspect they'll be in good company.
I am not sure it is easy to change opengl to run parallelly given it all shares a global state. How do you not mess up anything when render two scene at same time if two pipeline shares the same variable but you want to fill it with different value? And if you really want to change it so hard to give pipelines standalone context. Why not use the webgpu? It seems just designed in a stateless way that I just described.
O, apparently BitBitJump was invented during the seventies. I didn't know that before (esolang wiki says 2009).
Taken at pure sensory value, yup, you're completely correct. These are an extremely lossy compression of physical intimacy. It's like watching a 4k movie compressed to like 4 pixels of monochrome color.

However, you really have to look at the surrounding situation and mental state of the user to get why any of this matters. When you've got enough endorphins flowing, the slightly augmentation to sensory input can have a multiplicative effect. Since the brain regulates whatever your reality is, it's our job to fuck with that (in good ways) more than it is to make some completely mechanically/physically correct 1:1 recreation of sex with another person.

Let's say you're stuck with audio/video chat for intimate relations. But you've added some touch via teledildonics! Sure, it's crappy touch, but someone you want actually touching you but for some reason can't can now at least control that touch!

The media loves to spin sex tech as "this will replace sex in the future" a la Demolition Man or whatever, but that is both the wrong goal and complete bullshit. The fun part of all of this for me is building machines and interfaces to do what people and their genitals can't, and providing technology to build those interfaces/machines to see what other people come up with when freed from the tyranny (allow me my melodrama here) of human form.

This also allows us to build new forms of intimacy, possibly very, very silly forms. As an example: I work with cam models a lot, trying to build interfaces that aren't quite as a objectifying as the usual cam room. One time, I worked with a model and her fan club to hook up Rocket League (yes, the cars in hats playing soccer rocket league) to a sex toy, so any time the controller vibrated, her sex toy vibrated. There's video of how this works (and the software I used to do it and the github repo) here:

https://intiface.com/ghr

Now, this probably sounds like some weird as hell sex. Cam model is on camera, nude, using a toy, playing 3 v 3 rocket league with up to 5 cam room customers. However, this means that the normal rules of rocket league get bent. Players were no longer interested in goals, but rather, in how to cause the model's controller (and therefore toy) to vibrate. This might mean crashing into cars (Hi JG Ballard fans!), trying to get goals when the model was close to a goal to make big explosions, etc... It ended up in all of these continuously shifting team/social structures as people would join/leave, figure out new things, etc... Everyone ended up playing for hours, everyone had a really good time, and it was interactive for both the model and the customers.

So, basically, you've gotta look at these as new forms of sex, not replacements for what we've got. They may not even be good forms of sex, but hey, if everyone's consenting, no one gets hurts, and even maybe it turns out to be a buggy horrible mess, it's fun to try, right?
I too enjoy a soggy burrito and think anyone who complains about being glopp is unreasonable.
IMHO the optionality the cloud gives you is the main value at the low-end. You can play around with different architectures, mixing and matching managed services with no commitment. When you need to scale you can always switch to on-prem, and with the benefit of having a working system to base your hardware requirements on. Of course this migration has costs too, but if this is your strategy you can minimize cloud-specific dependencies and leverage automation that can be used in both environments (eg. ansible).
Ask HN: People in support – how do you find the tech industry?
Do you love it, hate it, or neither?

Do you find your job rewarding/meaningful?
Could you explain where you got that "less than 1%" figure from?
That's not the same at all. The emacs one is equivalent to all the other text editors that were able to open and save to SSH. Vscode allows remote plugin installation, so things like intellisense work on a code base of millions of lines remotely.
If you could have a fully-functional dev environment with pre-installed dependencies in 10s and the package takes 48 seconds to build and test, then you could.
>I cannot easily see what information goes through an ASP form submitted with a ViewState parameter (where the page state is encoded in a blob buried in a JS var or HTML comment). Is that also surreptitious?

I can't say I completely understand the scenario, but if you're talking about a user filling out a form, then submitting that form, then no. That would be expected behavior.

Data may be encoded in any number of encodings depending on need. Encoded data isn't always human readable; especially so during secure transmission. It's not so much the inability for a human to read the encoded data as it is the data being consisting of only what is necessary to perform the action expected by the user; those expectations, of course, set via whichever means the user is interacting with the software.

Please correct me if I've misunderstood.
Their latest work `tour de france` is phenomenal. Highly recommended for any electronic music lovers. Kraftwerk's music is transcendental in a way that lives through different time periods and yet still inspiring. R.I.P.
I believe the concept of teledildonics is patented, but the owner is a really cool cat and I bet he would think this is a great idea.
My Django is a little rusty but I think now requests will return 403s by default if you forget to include the csrf_token tag: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/csrf/#rejected-req...

Whereas the hand-rolled CSRF scheme I've inherited will fail silently
Netlify + vanilla html / css / js. It's free, easy deploy with a push to gitlab.
Neither clicking on the URL nor hitting the keyboard shortcut to bring focus to the address bar is a destructive action. The URL is still in tact, and you're free to copy it immediately after either action.

Let me know if I've got the issue wrong.
Suggesting all academic epidemiology be defunded really highlights the true intentions and bias of the writer.

It might be better, perhaps, for an academic to perform a code review instead.
Ah! Thanks, I've been looking for the exact definition!
I got basically the same advice from my adviser about collecting data for my thesis. "If too many experiments are failing," he said, "just do more of them, and faster."
That's true. But other apps crashing due to it is much worse. Facebook would be bold if theu opens address the issue.
Use the remote containers plugin and that problem goes away.
Lets wait a few months and see
Yes, lots of experts have plans. But it's not clear what the California state strategy is, nor most of those other countries you mentioned earlier, and they're the ones who make the rules.

I agree with everything else you say. Except calling my representative won't help because I'm not American and I already know what the NZ strategy is...
This looks excellent. Can easily see this vertically integrating across Azure to become a strong competitor to AWS + Lambda.
The user has not explicitly allowed this information to be collected, yet the software developer wants to. That I think is the definition of spyware.

If I were to project this pattern 10 steps further, a software developer may want to know the gender and emotional state of the user installing their software using the front camera. That would also be a spyware, but it's on the higher end of the spyware spectrum.
Devs don’t necessarily need to be involved with IAM roles, but they should know what their app requires.

Devs that have their work deployed on k8s don’t need to know how the ingress controller is configured, or how etcd works, but will be crippled if you’re confused my service and deployments.

All that being said, job listings are often filled with nonsense. If you like the company, just ignore all of that and start a conversation.
out of curiosity how do you guys make money?

looks like you guys have a big team and have been running for a decade now doing open source stuff
Bandwidth Alliance has nothing to do with this, afaik. Minecraft is a TCP game.
To be fair, it moves just a tiny bit. But the click feeling itself, yes, that is magical.
The worst thing is that it is not the inequality of wealth that matters. It's the inequality of power.

What Piketty and others of this philosophical movement believe is that taking money away from people is the same as removing power.

They are going to be disappointed. Power is a capital item, not a revenue item. Money gets you the contacts with the right people. Lack of money doesn't remove them.

Plus, of course, there isn't a fixed amount of wealth - particularly not financial wealth. So why confiscate when you can accommodate?
To the best of my knowledge, no. Even if we assume advertising attribution falls under legitimate interest (which isn’t certain), it would still only allow them to call out to Facebook once after install to report whether the app was installed from an ad. As of right now the Facebook SDK calls out every single time the app is opened or brought back in foreground.
This is a reasonable grounds to discriminate. No one is required provide non-logged-in users a bulk product purchase interface. They could choose to buy each product separately, or sign in. Bulk purchase cart is not essential, it is a convenience.
> "Tesla has been a big innovator"

The thread is about innovation, so that's what counts. And what other manufacturer matches what Tesla has driving on the roads today? The closest realistic challenger is the expensive Porsche Taycan which is still missing all the functionality and usability features.
The scope of things that people, usually teenagers, use as a vibrator is surprisingly wide. It’s not uncommon for game controllers and phones to serve this purpose for those who can’t get a dedicated device.

The thing that comes to mind is the Harry Potter broom that vibrated to simulate flight, which had to be recalled after parents were outraged; although honestly I feel like everyone should’ve seen that coming.
The thumbnails have human-level quality. The full images have oddities, but they disappear when downsized.
DL is going to put animators, voice actors and even actors out of work sooner than I ever expected. It's going to be feasible for one person to create a full anime episode in three days. The amount of content is going to explode by orders of magnitude and shared culture is basically going to die, with nearly zero chance another random person consumes the same content. What a weird time to live in.
Then get a job and save up some collateral. That's how many people start. This is really not that complicated.
One can’t help but wonder how much that trend has accelerated now that the modern phone is waterproof and trivially cleaned.
That reads as fairly dismissive to me.

Most people running serious gear have serious engineering payroll overhead.

Sure, some folks are managing something fairly static like game servers, but many of us work for bigco with two dozen products and massive teams.

Even with thousands of ec2 instances we continue to move our on-prem infrastructure to the cloud because developer productivity saves us big money in the long run.
Original report and PR:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_...
It would be theoretically possible for cloud providers, specializing in what they do, to gain from economies of scale of various sorts (having their own large purpose-built datacenters, needing less total redundant equipment to have the same replacement speed, having local servers in all parts of the world, being able to use nighttime idle cycles in servers in one part of the world for daytime customers on the other side), which could theoretically yield savings greater than the profit margin that they charge.

Not saying this is what happens in practice.
They got an actress to play with a toy live at a former brothel owners house to promote their porn related ICO.
The implicit opposite of natural is unnatural, which implies some sort of deviance from normal. Should we call all right-handed people "natural" and left-handed people something else?

Convention since far back as I can remember('90s) was "invert", as to why Apple decided to buck this trend, your guess is as good as mine.
Given the choice between a corrupt company and a corrupt politician, the corrupt politician can do far more damage. It’s far easier for me to choose which companies I use than choose which government that I am under.

The government can do and has done far more damage than big tech.
The edit button is perfect for fixing typos; I don't think I've ever even used it for any other purpose. Tidying-up typos up as you're passing through is a small way in which anyone can help contribute! It's like picking up pieces of trash as you're strolling through a park.
> BitTorrent client to download whatever

AFAIK Apple doesn't allow BitTorrent clients to run on iOS devices
It’s not 200 years, it’s the entire history of the human race. Automation produces wealthier societies by improving their productivity.

Every single time automation has done this it’s eliminated jobs, yet replaced them with better ones. If you demonstrated the personal computer with a spreadsheet to bankers and accountants in the late 70s, they could easily see the jobs that these terrible new automation tools would destroy, but few could predict the jobs they’d create.

When plows, combines, tractors came to farming, each time it was easy to see what jobs were no longer necessary. But it was impossible to know what jobs would be created. Each of these tools made food cheaper and more plentiful, freeing more disposable income to be spent on new products and inventions that created better jobs than the ones we lost.

It’s arrogant to think that after this has happened thousands of times, that our time is any different. Or to pretend that the clarity we see the jobs we will lose to robots is something new, and that our inability to forsee new jobs to replace them somehow means that this time there won’t be any. We’ve never been able to foresee them but they always will come.

If robots make things cheaper and better, those savings will create new products, markets and jobs. And if they don’t, robots won’t steal anyone’s job.
Why don't you look at the actual data: Firms with fewer than 100 workers accounted for 98.2 percent, and firms with fewer than 20 workers made up 89.0 percent. [1] The vast majority are small companies with single-digit employee counts. Add in independent contractors and it's even more skewed.

Being an entrepreneur means getting things done with what you have. You don't need to be wealth and instantly go from 0 to 1000 employees. Most people start with modest means and build up from there.

1. https://sbecouncil.org/about-us/facts-and-data/
Someone once told me that you can tell you are close to burnout when you think that everyone around you is an idiot. You must be burning out because it's not plausible that literally everyone you encounter is an idiot!

I like it because it is a logical construction that can be deployed even when your own perception is distorted by stress. It has definitely functioned as an effective safety alarm and I'm sure prevented some chaos more than once.
It looks like they also support ERPNext - I'm assuming that's their primary product offering
So Travis Scott Held a Concert on Fortnite
Imagine the converse: if the worst possible application of a law is too sane, then the law itself is not _strong enough_.
Those technologies, or mostly IB, were more important when Ethernet speeds lagged behind. IB was first to 100G. Now that Ethernet has caught up, IB has almost no advantage besides a tiny latency decrease. Even mellanox makes more Ethernet than IB products now.
What’s wrong are two things: lack of transparency and lack of choice. They could just ask where people got the app, and offer them a choice not to disclose, but they choose to not offer the user that choice and to not transparently communicate the choice has been withheld.

That’s user-hostile.

The problem with saying “just don’t install the app” is that you have to be informed first, and that even then you have no real choice. If you want to take part in digital social networks you must surrender control and privacy. If your data is a valuable commodity you should be able to decide who gets what, just like you decide with your money. But you can’t, not really.
Art on Newspapers Front Page NYTimes and WSJ, May 6 and John Singer Sargent
I don’t think you will ever be able to change the cursor to an arrow pointer because Apple is more interested in being different than they are interested in being useful.

This became very clear to me when I realized that you have not ever been able to even change the color of the pointer in macOS, nevermind the shape. I wanted it to be white so it would stand out more. Apple doesn’t care - they are too busy projecting style to care about users petty practical needs.
The difference is that this is done with the user’s explicit consent and I’m pretty sure they get compensated for it.
Just because I don't have direct production access doesn't mean that the people with direct production access aren't just executing the same scripts with different environment variables that I'm writing and running in the development and test environments.
Here is the HN discussion from the frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23092966
I love that you think mature products that took teams of highly skilled people at Amazon years to refine can just be slapped together in a month in your colo.

What a joke.
Every cool thing from the underground ends up mainstream in a predictable pattern.

Article: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
My version: Our state in life is for a large part a consequence of our choices, including times we chose non-action. Each choice has a risk vs reward, and the dice won't always be in your favor.
Very well done. Congratulations!
I am fan of Sequel Pro on Mac, and never found something like that for Linux. I use adminer on Linux and willing to try your tool.
Ah hah! Figured it out: some cosmetic filter is killing the dropdowns. Unfortunately the effecting rule is not discernable in the dev tools, so figuring out which rule is at fault is tricky and slow.

Found which one, too: it was a rule of my own that I added almost a year ago to kill off some of the annoying cards they pop up at the ends of many videos, which hide the video content; turns out my rule was just a touch too broad for how they do things.

Mea culpa.
> "Secure" (only send on TLS-enabled sites)

localStorage treats http and https as separate sites.
The IP addresses (both WiFi and mobile), device make/model, carrier and locale can be combined into a fairly unique fingerprint, narrowing it down even more over time since the SDK phones home every time the app is opened.
I would watch a Youtube recording of this!
Pizza and Chinese restaurants are famous for efficient phone ordering.

Growing up I could get a pizza ordered in 3 seconds flat.

Finish dialing... doesn’t even ring once. “George’s Pizza”. “Large cheese pickup!” “Ok 10 minutes.” <click>

Now try ordering from Cheesecake Factory. They pickup, and then read a script just to then put you on hold, where you might wait for several minutes before they pickup and make you recite name, phone number (Interrupting you to repeat each segment back as you are saying it), ask you a half dozen questions, finally let you order, insist on repeating it all back to you, etc.

I think it’s funny you’d think a digital menu and checkout cart would increase accuracy. I guess you just can’t win either way.
I guess they don't want you to go back through guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers endpoint.
That’s most likely the Facebook SDK we’re talking about. The SDK phones home regularly regardless of whether it’s features are actually being used.
Patent expired in August 2018, but not before the owner was kind of a dick with it for decades (allowing a licensing cabal to dictate what was done around the industry), then died in 2015, after which a patent troll got ahold of the patent, and sued 8 companies out of business.

Sooooooooo yeah. It sucked.
Azure’s Capacity Woes Hurt GCP, AWS, and All the Rest
The longest you can drive without stopping is proportional to the smallest bladder in your group.
- NEXT.js

- Hosted on a 5€ DigitalOcean droplet (alongside 3 other projects)

- Deployed via a one-liner script (ie not automatic but really easy)
The study in question is the Imperial College study projecting the spread of COVID-19. It used (apparently an earlier version of) this code to generate the data for its analysis.

This study was, of course, the basis for lockdowns around the world.
Clearly it's a paperwork issue, since it makes no sense.

But whats with the pathetic "Coronavirus survivors"?

Is this a medical term, meaning the disease has passed?

Or is it the on going bullshit that anyone who stubs their toe is called a 'survivor' so they can have a better sounding Facebook group that they can join and share?
I have a friend who is an IT manager for a large chain hotel in the Caribbean.

I keep asking him about why they still use on premises equipment and it boils down to:

* Cost for training / transitioning + sunk cost fallacy
* Perceived security risk (right or wrong)
* IT is mostly invisible and currently "works" with the current arrangement, why change?