skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you experience flats, especially when they happen repeatedly, you should always look for the cause. Check the inner tube. When you find the hole check that position on the rim as well as the tire. Make sure that there aren't any sharp edges or objects. Don't go too low on pressure. Buy quality tubes and tires from manufacturers like Continental or Schwalbe.

Flats happen and are inevitable, but they should be a rare occurence. As a daily bike commuter and road bike enthusiast I experienced 2 flats in the last 10 years.

Futhermore most maintenance tasks are quite easy to handle and Youtube has excellent tutorials ready. I understand that this isn't for everyone (I'm not interested in learning how to repair my car for instance), but channels like GCN [1] explain a range of basic maintenance taks for anyone who's interested.

I also think your expectations towards bike prices are somewhat unreasonable. Maintenance is required at any price category, but generally 1000 € bikes will give you a decent entry level experience with quality parts that should last for years. Lower priced options will have to cut corners and cause frustations at some point.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/globalcyclingnetwork
“Agartha” Sample Synthetic Voice Dialogue for Video Games
> This is how things were a few hundred years ago.
You'd need a cloud storage provider that just gave you a plain old UNIX filesystem to do whatever you want with.

Doesn't iCloud Drive fit the bill?

Access to it is slightly obscure, i.e. ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/ but wouldn't that work?

It's free for me to use. That's because I'm already paying Apple $10/mo to backup the family's iPhones. We're only using a little over 200 GB out of the 2000 GB we have. (I'm sure that Apple is counting on most people not using their full amount).

I've only put a few files out there, so maybe there are a lot of potential pitfalls. But it doesn't get much simpler than using cp or mv.

In reality it's most emphatically not a "plain old UNIX filesystem". Apple is doing some magic and storing blobs out in Amazon S3 or in their own datacenters. But to me it has the appearance of a Unix (Posix?) filesystem.

I realize that rsync.net couldn't survive with a business model that limits users to 2000 GB, which is Apple's maximum. But I thought I'd mention it, since it just might be the perfect "free" solution for a lot of people.
How's anti-vaccination in any way comparable to lack of trust in corporations? We have decades of evidence showing the efficacy of vaccines. Ask any old pediatrician what hospitals were like before vaccines. Can Apple and Google produce equally strong evidence that their new surveillance system will reduce mortality and be resistant to abuse?
Apple is not an "institution". A arm of government or a long standing NGO are institutions. Apple is a business, it shouldn't get institutional trust.
On a similar note, take the old advice of finding a good boss instead of a good job. I've mostly had good bosses, but they always had at least 25+ people under them making it really hard to form a good relationship.
We have a WIP distributed cache module here: https://github.com/caddyserver/cache-handler
Yes, this seems like it’ll cause resentment and arguing unless Shannon is already bought in. She reads the first line and maybe thinks “but why? I don’t like it!”. She only gets to the reasoning after she’s set against the decision and looking for reasons to disagree. The other way round, she reads about increasing team morale and thinks “oh, good, I agree”, then is more likely to agree with the decision.

If the boss can tell Shannon to deal with it like in the army, no problem. But in an office Shannon has lots of coworkers and bosses to formally complain to! Giving bottom lines which are in any way controversial in this manner will probably backfire imo.
Google and Apple are the ones pushing for isolating where this data lives and how it can be used/abused here. They are doing this in an effort to curb far more dangerous data collection on the very same devices in architectures that infer location or send off all data that is gathered on central servers. Your comment boils down to "Gapple is evil because Snowden" and seems to be disconnected from the specific issue at hand. They are OS manufacturers, if they wanted to get malicious access to all kinds of tracing data they would have had to do exactly nothing.
I’ve seen an Apple engineer in non-GUI or hardware job talking on his blog about curvatures he encounter over the course of his job, so that definitely happens sometimes.
If you don't trust Google and Apple when they say their API does what they say it does, then you can't use an iPhone or Android phone.

I understand that people are conscious about these things but what I don't understand is how people say "oh I'd never run an app using an API from google/apple, they have a horrible track record" and then carry a phone in their pocket with an OS from either Google or Apple, where those companies can basically do whatever they want. If you carry such a phone you already trust them. If this API does what it says it does (basically exchange random numbers) then how is that worse than what you already trust your phone to do?
Yes, we could also store the blacklist as a perfect hash, which would probably give us roughly the same memory usage with O(1) performance. But it would have to be a separate hash than the LRU dynamic hash used for storing DNS entries.

Yes, there are dynamic perfect hashes, but they are too slow when we update the hash with each lookup, a common use case with DNS.
You should maybe read Permanent Record from Snowden. Everything you describe is outdated since his whistleblowing in 2013.
Only the names change ... NKVD ... KGB ... FSB.
I’m unsure of what you mean: while I did not participate in CGC personally IIRC they used a custom platform that required teams to retool for. How would an entry that runs “on real binaries” be useful for this situation?
Really it makes great sense to me. The casinos are a world of their own. Hardly any Las Vegas natives go there. Honestly, given my brief time spent with someone actually from Las Vegas, I'd say the invisible wall between the Strip and the rest of the city is probably as good a deterrent as many international borders.

Also, there's a chance your stats are being thrown off by the fact that Las Vegas the city doesn't have very many world-class casinos. All the popular areas are actually in unincorporated Clark county, in an unincorporated community known as Paradise, NV. Make sure you include those.
Ferrari is now worth more than General Motors and Ford
As always, the problem is money.
I love Caddy 1, been using it for years after my annoyances with nginx. I've never looked back. Built-in TLS setup is amazing but the killer is that you can host a website with only a few lines of configuration in a single file. Now I'm managing dozens of websites with a single file with only ~4 lines of config per domain (most of it is the same).

I was nervous about Caddy 2 because I could imagine the core was better but I couldn't fathom how the config process could be any better than v1 (my favorite part). I was wrong - the v2 config introduces some clever ideas which makes it better too. It has a great simplicity to it that is extremely powerful and I found that I could get rid of a couple of the plugins I used with v1 because you can harness the power of the v2 matchers to do so many things.

Thank you mholt and thank you francislavoie, Caddy 2 is awesome!
No matter if it's true or not, I hope this will become a focuspoint.
I think the point is that the gains are largely irrelevant. Sure, its great 100 mil less people are hungry, but if you look at the trend, we've gone almost nowhere. Not helped by the fact that, there seems to be a variability of about 50 mil. Why? Are we under-reporting? Are we not addressing the right problem?

If you have variability of 50 mil and only 100 mil gains, its really hard to make the case that you qualitatively improved anything, it could be nothing more than a statistical anomaly (maybe there was more rainfall or less competition from local wildlife), and whatever you're doing is not working at all - assuming you are doing anything.

This is pretty different from 50 mph vs 80 mph - that's a ~40% improvement, and we can point at something to show the improvement.

We have added quite a few billion since 2000, so there's an argument to be made that we are making more food, but the ~1 bil number staying fairly stable to me points to a systemic issue, not merely a problem with food distribution.
As a lifelong public servant, welcome to the ungrateful side of life. If you're providing a service to the public with the hopes of their gratitude, you will be sad. Do it for the same reason you change your baby's diaper: you love them and it needs doing. They might take pleasure in pissing on you while you're doing it, but this thing you love will be better off afterward.
It's curious how in less than two hundred years our world-view has changed so drastically. Of course, scientific advances compound. But so do ways of thinking. Anybody who is lucky enough to get the word "Almighty" in a Science paper these days is just cracking a very good joke that made it through a lot of reviewers. But less than two hundred years ago people still felt they had to acknowledge His existence in words while undoing Him in facts.
No, the point behind civil disobedience is that you knowingly break the law in order to make the law harder to enforce, whether that's for PR reasons or - per the topic - because so many people are doing it that it's logistically impractical to make a dent in them.
Super Mario 64 port for Windows and Linux supposedly based On leaked source code
Not entirely sure how anything OP describes has anything specific to do with tech.
Unless I'm missing something, that only says you need to package all dependencies if it is a library. Which means you could make a binary-only statically compiled package without adding a bunch of dependencies right?

Of course, that isn't helpful if you need to compile with extra plugins, but in that case you are probably using standard go tools and not apt packages anyway.
I’m talking about rural Mexico up through the 1960s, within the living memory of elderly people (with some of the features I mentioned persisting today or only recently changing). The US South was like this at least through the first few decades the 20th century (after WWII the US Federal government made a tremendous effort to bring jobs and infrastructure to underdeveloped parts of the country), as were many parts of Europe. Some places around the world still look largely like my description.

People quickly forget many of the hardships their own great grandparents faced.

Source: my parents are anthropologists and I spent a substantial amount of time as a child in the 1990s visiting an indigenous peasant village, sleeping in a dirt-floored hut with a hearth fire nearby, with no electricity and water carried on people’s heads from half a mile away, high infant mortality, belief that diseases are caused by witches (vs. germs), etc.
> Ascribing all excess deaths to coronavirus is a mistake.

I worded my statement intentionally.

> It's also most likely still an undercount

Some of the excess deaths will be other things. It will take more careful analysis to come up with reasonable breakdowns, and what percentage is likely covid-19 deaths.

Basically, as this article mentions - https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/05/02/exc...

> “I think people need to be aware that the data they’re seeing on deaths is very incomplete,” said Dan Weinberger, a Yale professor of epidemiology who led the analysis for The Post.

> Those excess deaths — the number beyond what would normally be expected for that time of year — are not necessarily attributable directly to covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. They could include people with unrelated maladies who avoided hospitals for fear of being exposed or who couldn’t get the care they needed from overwhelmed health systems, as well as some number of deaths that are part of the ordinary variation in the death rate. The number is affected by increases or decreases in other categories of deaths, such as traffic fatalities and homicides.

> But excess deaths are a starting point for scientists to assess the overall impact of the pandemic.
Can't Apple push silent code updates to specific phones? That would mean they can access that data whenever they choose to. Even if they don't do it right now, they retain that ability.
I believe that the In-N-Out experience proves this wrong.
Startups are fine I think: in a 4~10 people company every employee is the equivalent of VP and each getting admin access to company’s DB for instance is par for the course.

If you can’t trust your CTO you have other issues at hand.
Anecdotally, the best professional experience in my 15+ career in tech was one startup. There the founders were very into doing “work-life harmony” instead of “work-life balance”. They made a point to have their friends meet your friends and each colleagues’s friends. Our partners and spouses knew each other. There was a big push to make sure your work is not simply something that you work and leave in the office, but that you’re part of the tribe. They genuinely cared.

It was an incredible experience. Everyone was very passionate. The company grew in revenue 1000%.

Which lead to disagreements between the founders, which inevitably lead to the one guy pushing that culture to quit and it all went downhill from there.

I’m obviously massively oversimplifying here and there were more factors, but the feeling of belonging was very real. And I know it was not just me as we have ex-colleagues gatherings from time to time and the sentiment is shared.
This collection has 8 videos from 1990 and 3 from 1991. There is a few others from MTV's 90s on other collections at archive.arg: https://archive.org/details/movies?sin=&and%5B%5D=MTV&and%5B...
Excellent. I'm really excited about Caddy 2. We've been using Caddy 1 to server all our main sites over https and simply for the last 4 years. I moved away from Apache and have never ever looked back.

Well done Matt and Francis
> as its success can aid to unify a fragmented Species--polarized by petty distractions and affairs

I don't think just giving more people access to internet will be enough to unify fragmented species. Better ways of educating people will help, but just giving them access to information is like giving mosquito nets to impoverished people, they use it for fishing and pollute water with anti-mosquito compounds which breeds more resistant mosquitoes and make fish scarce. Just look at anti-vaxers and 5G conspirationists. They have access to all the information they want.
Lovely work, and I feel sad that this kind of labor inside a teletype emulator is something we consider anything but niche nostalgia in 2020.
https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijantimicag.202...
Compared to Javascript it is small and well defined AFAIK.
Shhh you're gonna upset all the Elixir / Golang / Node people
I actually tried that with MaraDNS in the pre-1.0 days (in case of collision, go forward in hash array N elements until there is no collision).

The problem is that it works really great for static data, but doesn’t work for dynamic data as cleanly as using a linked list to handle collisions.

The one thing I would do differently is that Deadwood (MaraDNS’s recursive/blacklist DNS server) adds individual elements with malloc() and removes them with free(); doing things that way is OK for relatively small data sets on a desktop class computer, but some embedded systems don’t handle the stress of a lot of malloc() and free()s very well, and doing it that way uses a significant amount of memory per element.
is there a way to host git repositories on the more distributed file systems? git repos don't need high performance so I feel like something like swarm or ipfs should be good enough
Right, for sure, that’s a choice users have. (On the iphone too, fwiw).
Sadly, outside of tech circles very few people would have the knowledge or even motivation to do this. The attitudes of the populace to online privacy are frighteningly callous.
Figure 3.3 in [1] suggests that a belted driver has a 40% chance of survival in a full frontal crash at 50 mph. At 80 mph the survival changes are close to zero.

[1] https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/relationship_between_speed_risk_...
It's not surprising. There's a theory which says that having resources that can be extracted from the ground makes it less likely that a country will develop on any axis - economically, in education, health, democracy etc.

There are many theories about why this happens [1] but the one that I agree with the most is the one found in the book The Dictator's Handbook - it's simply not in the interest of the ruler of such a place to develop the country. Here's a trailer of that book by CGPGrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
> synthesising "copyrighted" drugs

Patented; it's called "patented". And thanks to the magic of supply and demand, even selling them for same price would help, if not as much.
Again, its very easy to cherry-pick statistics, and point at a big number and say "oh this is great we helped people". True, but if you didn't actually fix the root cause it doesn't mean much. Contextually for ~30 years the number has stayed pretty stable, despite 2 billion in growth. So we clearly are capable of producing tons of new food, but we're pretty bad at managing that growth - or by the numbers the extra 1.9 billion we managed to feed would have more than covered the billion gap, no?
Why do you have to make baseless accusations against David Suzuki?
This is one of those cases where I bet Github's ownership is in play. Github the company may not care about what the MPA thinks of them and could consider fighting this. Microsoft I'm sure have at least some business linked to the film industry and do not want to poke the bear.
The assumptions of benefit appear to rely on a naive theory of instantaneous contact and isolation, when in practice the entire process is unavoidably manual, requiring human intelligence to ascertain environmental factors with which to make a determination about whether someone is a close contact.

When you consider that close contacts include anyone you've spent more than 2 hours with in a room, it becomes clear that most life situations are not handled by estimates of proximity using bluetooth: home, family & friend visits, workplaces.

You can find a deep-dive into these issues here:

https://blog.crushthecurve.today/why-should-you-install-the-...
> I hope that RoR stays strong amidst the current React/SPA framework/Node fad.

Fortunately, rails has solid support for API only rails apps. Jbuilder is pretty great. In my experience, there’s still nothing in the node ecosystem that rivals ActiveRecord’s maturity.
And MSSQL.
The discussion is beyond "if the data exists", it will be gathered and some people seem to prefer yelling at clouds instead of looking at the technical implementation.

Even nation state actors will have a harder time gathering data that only exists locally on a bunch of smartphones, separate from geolocation as proposed here, versus a centralised database lacking comprehensive oversight.

The rest is pretty irrelevant, we're talking about data collection using phones that already have an OS from both of these vendors. "But Snowden" is really no argument anybody in these discussions will listen to (and I'm not convinced they should if it's used in a way to imply that you shouldn't use the internet for anything). If you have a problem with data collection for contact tracing please be specific why and optimally provide what you feel would be a better alternative.
Thanks for posting about this. Sharing urls/files/text/etc to termux is something I never thought about doing. I usually end up sharing urls to the gmail app and just sending it to my todo@ e-mail to go through later. I like your idea of sharing to a script in termux better though.

Is your script available somewhere? Is it just a simple "echo org-stuff >> capture.org"?
Unfortunately, these companies earned our distrust and cynicism. I'm not an anti-vaxxer but I can't bring myself to believe that Google and - to a lesser extent - Apple are not going to record this data. I also don't believe that American companies have the liberty to disobey the US government and their letter agencies if they request this data to be recorded for them to abuse later. And for that reason, I will be disabling any tracking on my phone.
I said P⇒Q; you're asking if that means I believe !P⇒!Q.

That is: I'm not saying a company is trustworthy if-and-only-if its employees speak publicly. I'm saying that my mental model of what a company would or wouldn't do internally is strongly influenced by what I know about its employees.
MaraDNS (OK, Deadwood) can handle white lists too:

upstream_servers = {}
upstream_servers["."] = "192.168.253.253" # Never answers
upstream_servers["good-domain.example.com."] = "9.9.9.9"
upstream_servers["whitelist-entry.foo."] = "9.9.9.9"
# And so on

The downside is that the code currently only supports 20,000 elements added this way.
What do you want out of work, friends and stability or risk and glory?

Work is an inherently ego driven, protection from death task by stacking more human and capital cost onto the problem of death. You can find friends in that, but it's not a stable social relationship.

You're not burnt out, in the sense that you got burned. You seem to be handling that fine (write down your conflicts though!), it seems more like you ran out of fuel for the fire. The sparks are still being created but there's nothing to burn.

Get into the 'why' behind art, the symbols, the inspirations for techniques, it's a great indicator where other souls found fuel to burn. Find another part of your life that gives you enough fuel input to start a new fire. Snap a branch off your culture's hierarchy or history and use it as a second stick to your own stick and start a brush fire. If you're single find something your lovers want burnt off.

I think you're starting again with real skills and experience this time. If you're the kind of guy that needs to be burning, all the comments about the cycles of business, numbers, money and all that are not going to work for you.
Bit confusing. Need more clarity. Read 10 times. Pls recheck mr. ceo :)
You're disappointed with the Silicon Valley bubble, not technology perse
In Australia we basically did both: shutdown everything, and shutdown all access to nursing homes.

It has been disastrous (comparatively). We had a couple of asymptomatic carriers infect some aged care facilities and now nearly 20% of the deaths country wide are from those incidents. And that's with the second best testing regime in the world though March/April (after South Korea).

We'd have been better closing the aged care faculties and moving people in with relatives. That's not very practical, but the COVID deaths would almost certainly have been less.
So basically: imprison more people -> cost goes up -> crime does not go down -> imprison more people -> cost goes up -> crime does not go down -> imprison more people ->....

Does not sound too clever in my book.

Maybe time to try something else?
Any plans for an Azure Blob API?
> Are companies required to adhere to a DMCA notice, or is that just policy to avoid litigation?

By law, if a service provider doesn’t know that material they’re hosting on behalf of someone else is infringing, then they’re not liable for any copyright violations in that content. The notice process exists to inform them of that fact, and if they continue to host the material, they’re then liable for it.

The law also protects the provider from complaints by the original uploader about taking down content pursuant to a DMCA notice; that’s the counter-notices you’ll sometimes hear people mentioning.

Overall, the law is intended to let service providers stay clear of copyright disputes that involve their customers.