skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cellular data suggests October shutdown at Wuhan lab, experts skeptical
FUCK is still my default “Find>Replace>Find>Replace” placeholder. Need to shift a wad of spreadsheet cells laden with formulas but don’t want to risk anything?

Find All “=“ Replace with “FUCK”
Copy/Move
Find All “FUCK” Replace with “=“

Also handy for updating words or names when word processing.

The choice dates back to my first computer - I remember replacing all spaces “ “ with “FUCK” and watching gloriously as the assignment I had written was slowly turned into curse word gibberish.

I tell myself I still do it because (especially capitalised) it does stand out as an error in a way other placeholders may not. But it’s mostly for the fun and cheap thrill - pretty sure only one client ever got a document that I had left fucked up in this way.

[Edit to add: Nothing pseudonymous about my account name, but I’ll fucking own it.]
given that the Sahara is only a couple thousand years old does that mean the amazon is just as young?
This is called hinting, it's configurable on Linux (don't know about MacOS).
https://www.blender.org/user-stories/japanese-anime-studio-k...

Blender. Performance capture is used just like it is in computer games but the 3D objects are shaded differently to give them a more 2D look.
I guess that George Harrison signature is him indeed (because it's an official document), but what's interesting is The Beatles used a system for autographs for fans where one band member would do the autographs of the entire band on any given day. So as a collector you would need 16 signatures if you wanted to complete your collection.
I'm not sure if they will support those yet. I could never get SSH working well, whereas SSH with U2F works perfectly (and they do support that). I'm guessing they will add GPG key integration, as once the key can perform crypto operations, it's just a matter of host software.
> I assume the strategy is a long-play to have people + communities become wholly dependent on your services (they skip buying cars, skip learning to drive, transit fails to evolve further), then once they are, ratchet up the prices?

You forgot: drive sustainable incumbents out of business by undercutting them, even though you have higher actual cost, with VC subsidies.
Even less. Tesla is known to be an absolute slave driver and has a lingering issue that some day the media will care about enough to report. Every once in a while we get a blip[1], but then Elon destroys the life of the whistleblower (e.g. calling CPS on a mother, Swatting them, trying to get all professional licenses suspended). Then they always underreport injuries or permanently disable workers in order to not have any "reportable injuries".

Then the media quietly drops it because people just don't care about workers or the pile of corpses under Elon's "I'm saving the planet and taking us to Mars" narrative. Elon unleashes his troll army and they hammer the journalist or anyone who is even mildly curious about the work conditions at Tesla.

Tesla cars are the blood diamonds of EVs.

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[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2019/03/01/tesla-sa...
There is a solarized version as well which I've used a few times in the past. https://thomasf.github.io/solarized-css
Stories Are the Answer [audio] in Memory of MIT's AI Professor Patrick Winston
There is a video [0] about this censoring-"problem" by Youtuber Tom Scott. He talks about how it's impossible to implement with all edge-cases, easy to circumvent and thus usually not a good idea. Fittingly, the video is filmed in Peniston.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcZdwX4noCE
Exactly. The conversations happen at unexpected and unpredictable times depending on when the compiler needs to spill registers, which has surprising effects.
As always, the devil is in the details. I'd imagine a heavily automated car factory is actually one of the safer places to work, compared to (say) a hog slaughterhouse or a massage parlor.

In a sane world, we'd let workers choose between going to work and staying home without undue penalties either way, but that's not going to happen in 'Murica.
I'm not sure why you think there's any analogy between women working as programmers in the 60s and women working in factories during the second World War. But in fact, WWII did effect a huge change in perceptions of women as part of the workforce.
Which of the following US government conspiracies do you believe are true?:

Aliens crashed at Roswell

Secret society rules the world/USA

Moon landings were faked

9/11 was an inside job

Something nefarious is being added to the water supply

The government created HIV
It's a dataset related to balance changes of bitcoin addresses downsampled to daily resolution.

You could extract it from BigQuery's bitcoin public data.
Venus isn't a better option. Mars is ready for human shelters on day one, venus would crush and melt anything we're sending there for hundreds of years. It'd be far easier to warm Mars than cool Venus, as we're discovering on earth, warming is much easier to cause.

For mars, You could crash nitrogenous asteroids into the surface, make GHG production facilities that emit CFCs or HFCs, and hopefully soil carbon gets released in a runaway effect. Thermonuclear weapons over the pole is impractical but a fun idea.

For venus, it's so tough, you'd have to block solar radiation and then fix the massive amounts of carbon with co2 capture... maybe if we develop co2 capture for dirt cheap on earth, we could make sky cities with carbon fixers on venus, after a few hundred years it'd be colder...

Fun to think of, but ultimately we need to terraform earth towards cooling, as our current warming is too successful
Ask HN: Why are some of the AWS prefixed with Amazon and some with AWS?
Does anyone know the reason for the prefixes in the AWS product names?

Almost 30% of the services are under 'A' when viewed in the AWS console's 'Services' > A-Z tab
Medium doesn't let me read this unless I pay.
You should avoid medium blog writing too.
Likewise no expert, but at the price point cars sell at, I doubt the cost of shipping vehicles was a primary concern. Consider that Australian vehicles are made everywhere except Australia, even commodity cars, and Australia is notoriously expensive to ship to.

We even had factories here, but they were too expensive to run. It's cheaper to ship them from overseas.
Blind speed dating over 3-minute blurred video calls
cgp grey has made a nice video about it. "trouble with transporters". The question is: if you go to sleep and wake up, is it really you? or is it a new consciousness?
Thank you :) I did spend a while editing and completely re-writing sections
That is the argument, that for a time it was in practice a default choice, just a bit before that the default choice was hotmail, at least in italy.
"Remember redis is meant to hold ephemeral data in memory, so please don’t treat it as a DB. It’s best to design your system assuming that redis may or may not lose whatever is inside"

Of course I disagree with that statement. Many serious Redis use cases at big companies assume Redis is there and will hold your data. What they usually assume is that under certain cases during failovers or other serious failures you many lose some acknowledged writes that were sent immediately before. And this most of the times does not happen too. Note that many high performance applications using SQL DBs with a relaxed fsync configuration will have the same assumption. The suggestion should be more: if Redis for you is just a volatile aid, use a given setup, if it's were you store data, use another setup.

Anyway if you want to see a version of Redis where you can store also bank accounts, transactions or any other of the most critical stuff you can store in a DB make sure to check the news at Redis Conf 2020 (the conf is in streaming and free).

EDIT: But even after that announcement the biggest value for Redis is that it can be fast and provide a "best effort" consistency level that is adequate for a lot of use cases in practice. Many systems were sacrified in the temple of wanting to provide linearizability for all the use cases.
Not sure if this was added later, but it says exactly that...

or just use the bare CSS as a starting point to make your own (everyone has their own style)
I have downloaded Youtube-DL on my Windows 7 machine but have never done this kinda stuff before?

Would you please guide me around, if it's not too much of an ask?
While I am not for any kind of censorship, if someone doesn't know swear words, would they be able to use them? Is swearing orthogonal to human nature?

I had known few kids who didn't know what swearing was and they never did anything similar to swearing. Is there value in swearing? If not, what's the argument for letting kids learn about it?

It's an interesting thought. Would limiting the vocabulary lead to people expressing less.

Is there any controlled experiment on similar? Can this affect complex thoughts or they can still be conveyed?
Maybe I've just become blind to them but I don't recall seeing any?
I see no indication that anything heavier could be powered via the method described in the article.
Hi, I'm not OP, but have built a similar thing. Are you suggesting to use https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file instead of https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets?
No, you can censor anything, even meaning. If censorship doesn't work, it's because you're not using enough of it.
The Art of Teaching Associative Thinking to Machines
I can't find it now, but there was a post on HN where someone shared a report regarding their social media activity. It was compiled by a firm that offers to "research" potential employees.

If I remember correctly, it included a twitter account that was not obviously linked to the persons name.

There was an entry for every (re-)tweet that contained swearing, associated with a negative score.

Also, if you're swearing on public platforms, you almost never know if/how the platform itself may react. Maybe it affects the likelyhood of your contribution(s) being shown to others.
> ["Microsoft Ergonomic Desktop" keyboard] has an "Office key" which if you press launches an ad to buy Microsoft Office.

That is the funniest and saddest thing I've heard today. Ergonomic indeed..

With their work in open-source, like developer tools and programming languages, Microsoft has been regaining some of the trust they lost over the years with their business strategy and product insanity. I'm surprised to note that these days I'm using more and more of their products regularly.

At the same time, it's widely recognized that the company culture is still sick in some ways, with incredibly questionable design decisions in Windows 10 and other products.

That's what worries me, for example, about their acquisition of GitHub and NPM. I never want to be stuck being dependent on Microsoft, because you never know when they might slip into crazy mode and ruin a good thing.
so you have to hardcode all your SG IDs, VPC IDs, Subnet IDs if you want to integrate with existing infrastructure (https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl/issues/1141). Dealbreaker, waste of time, disappointing for an "official" CLI

You can reference Parameter Store and Secret Manager entries in CF so you don’t have to hardcore values.
Per year.

(Comparisons involving both stock and flow measures are somewhat dodgy, but they’re made all the time (debt/GDP, annual rent/house price, unicorns/revenue)).

Edit to add: they’re not really dodgy per se, but the result is a rate, ie has a time dimension.
Having toured multiple car plants, and knowing Tesla is more automated than many, I am of the belief that much of the line work can successfully happen at social distances.
I can't say I liked one of his proposed alternatives: Terraform

I tried it and found the experience to be far inferior to Ansible, especially if you provision actual Linux instances with it.

Terraform was always getting stuck in an inconsistent state, and trying to roll back, which doesn't work well for any type of stateful resource.

I guess Terraform may be ok for provisioning resources which are stateless and interchangeable, say security groups and other simple services.

I can't say I enjoyed using it much, though the rest of Hashicorp's offerings, Nomad, Consul etc are really great.
Cuomo is using emergency powers to unilaterally direct post-emergency policy. Legislature and courts need to restore the balance of powers. Cuomo's policies have not been a panopoly, rural regions that have not been so intensely impacted by the pandemic have been critically injured by the pandemic response. A government cytokine storm.
What the heck does the reference to Velikovsky mean?
A Radar for Plastic: High-Resolution Map of 1km Grids to Track Emissions in Seas
I had a similar idea. The search aspect of your service covers it but I think it would still be worth considering.

I work in science so we are often talking about specific samples Or entities with unique identifiers. I wanted a way to construct a database of all the conversations surrounding a given sample name - so I could browse through it or lookup the history of the conversations surrounding a specific sample.

The idea would be to supply a regex pattern to match all of the sample names and construct the database using that.

Similar situations exist in most industries I imagine - so having a way of recognizing patterns and classifying/organizing/browsing them might be worth considering for your service.

Also slack and similar services should be integratable.
Yep. Complete agree with sbarre. Could you kindly share more details? Would definitely like to do this as a weekend hack.
It certainly can at a click of a button--I want a Google Sheet that updates in real time. That's exactly a flow that Zapier offers.
Here we trust readers to make up their own minds.

Of course it is good to supply relevant information, but then the emphasis should be on supplying information, not taking a swipe.
I think it's more a joke to get people to type rude words than an actual censorship mechanic.

Much like funny film clips where people bleep innocuous phrases to make them sound sweary. That's the joke, see?
Is this also present in Enterprise version of Windows?
I don't doubt that this happens, but I think so much less of someone that would go into my Twitter and assign a negative ranking to each swearword in an effort to compile a metric of "me", that I wouldn't want to do business with them.

In that regard, adding more motherfucking swearwords in my bullshit comments serves as a great fucking way to deter any asshole cunt that thinks such metrics are a good goddamn idea. Dick pussy ass.
Mac for laptop. Windows / Linux for desktop.
Why is this flagged? Maybe it's something HN doesn't find very useful, okay, but that's not a reason to flag it.
They are trying to kill the idea of local apps and exe's, aka they can finally turn "files" into property by using active directory and NTFS for the entire internet.

You all seem clueless as to the last 20 years of software theft in the game industry.

Everyone 20 year ago on slashdot was worried about software and hardware drm, windows 10 is the first version of windows where they are trying to turn the PC into a mobile locked down platform because of the success of walled gardens like steam, world of warcraft, and the appstores like apple/googe play.

The level of stupid on hacker news is disturbing, we used to get complete PC games in the 90's and early 2000's before the public fell for mmo scam of the late 90's which put PC gaming on the path of massive game theft.

Valve is basically a criminal game stealing empire by infecting games with client-server code. The whole indsutry wants to take us to mainframe dumb client computing.

https://tifca.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ClienttoCloud_V...
The funny part is that it was a pretty common look for 1997. They even tastefully refrained from the "under construction" image.

The other common look was the simple document, such as https://cr.yp.to/djb.html
Presumably by someone from the UK given some of the references, but "bloody crap" is okay. Curious.
If only Linux had as nice and frictionless experience as Windows or Mac.

Linux on desktop is somewhat bearable with the right distro but on a laptop it's a big no no (terrible battery life etc).
October is a massive holiday month for China. 10 1 is National Day, Mid-Autumn festival is around that time, and Golden Week is as well. This should not be surprising that work shut down. Lots of people take a break then.
Everyone on HN is an outlier, though. We’re very atypical users.
> First of all, I don't understand why Microsoft is doing this. They are making more from online services than they ever made from selling windows licences so it's not like they need the few cents advertising generates. Probably the windows group trying to up their own numbers, not noting they are hurting the company as whole.

Maybe you know more than me, but I think it's possible that your assumptions aren't right.

Do you remember the Ask toolbar that everyone hated Oracle putting into the Java installer on Windows? I think it was even opt-in rather than opt-out, and it was just in the installer pretty unobtrusively. I heard recently that this earned more money than all of Java licensing at the time, and supported the hundreds of people working full time on Java.
Best "hacky" article on Hacker News in the recent history.
If you play any video game that is multiplayer online you will know it's impossible.

All these large companies Riot, Blizzard, Valve, etc implement censoring tools. People just swear over voice or add random characters to swear words or swear in different languages.

It really doesn't matter what they do, people will still swear.
No reason to use Terraform when Pulumi exists.
There are two kinds of dangers now and there are proponents on both sides of the aisle. One is to give a pause to all labor laws in a bid to bring more economic reforms and kickstart the economy. And other danger is this - bring so many regulations and policing in the economy that the few remaining investors will be scared out of the market. We need a balanced approach here.
As someone who mostly uses HN on mobile, I occasionally accidentally flag things, and then they disappear from my feed making it impossible to correct my mistake, and there is no way (that I know of) to see a history of what I flagged. I wonder how many people accidentally flagging could trigger the notice.
I highly recommend using this to configure Windows:

https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script
If you click View Source you can see that queries are absolutely encrypted. Running your own server just changes your IP but it’s still “yours.”

Finally, you shouldn’t “trust” code and run it. You absolutely need to read and understand first and finally, determine if running yourself actually brings benefit.
>Damore suggested in his memo, mightn't these innate differences mean that women are less likely, on average, to prefer careers in software engineering?

As far as I understood it, this wasn't the bit of the memo that people were attacking.
And to add:

Which of the many method of that function is called depends on the type of all the arguments (not only the first argument, as in single dispatch languages like C++). In other words, the implementation actually executed (and thus the source package) might vary depending on the argument type. If I understand Julia correctly.
No need to buy a key.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18156955
reading the comments, probably because it is not what the title promises.
For me, Windows 10 is where I felt like I was no longer in control of my own computer.

Microsoft doesn't do discrete OS updates anymore but I definitely feel like it might time to give Linux another go next time I upgrade my hardware. There's less and less software the holds me to MS. This is due to so many programs going to the web - Google Docs suite, dictionaries etc and partially due to better Linux support for software I use such as Unity or games via Wine. What's held me back until now has been poor graphics driver support.
* some only show up on consumer editions (eg. home or pro)

* some don't show up on LTSC/LTSB

* your admin might have disabled it for you via group policy
They are trying to kill the idea of local apps and exe's, aka they can finally turn "files" into property by using active directory and NTFS for the entire internet.
You all seem clueless as to the last 20 years of software theft in the game industry.

Everyone 20 year ago on slashdot was worried about software and hardware drm, windows 10 is the first version of windows where they are trying to turn the PC into a mobile locked down platform because of the success of walled gardens like steam, world of warcraft, and the appstores like apple/google play.

The level of stupid on hacker news is disturbing, we used to get complete PC games in the 90's and early 2000's before the public fell for mmo scam of the late 90's which put PC gaming on the path of massive game theft.

Valve is basically a criminal game stealing empire by infecting games with client-server code. The whole industry wants to take us to mainframe dumb client computing.

https://tifca.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ClienttoCloud_V...
X-Card – A Safety Tools for Simulations, Role-Playing, and Games
I believe the title of the article should be "AWS Services You Should Avoid if you don't need them or if they are not the right fit for your specific application, for example, if you need social login you are better off with other alternatives more fit to the social login use-case; or for example, if Lambda is not the best fit for containing and deploying my code given my architectural decisions at the moment of this writing".
I'm commenting about the website.

Not messaging. Sharing.

Even though I'm commenting on the website, the Bandcamp Android app sometimes auto plays songs I've never heard before on load.
How do you find out interesting Zap workflows?
There was a good This American Life episode about the NUMMI plant https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015
Thank you. TIL!
You're looking for the wonderful-sounding "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis", which is a great thing to trot out at dinner parties (if those ever become a thing again).
When you wake up, I'd love to hear more about this. I've searched for https ==> http proxies before and didn't find much.

I'm aware of https://github.com/tenox7/wrp but converting everything to a gif is quite a bit more destructive!
As long as they don't make a machine that can make anything, provided it starts with the letter "N", I'm all for it.
Quoting from a SO answer[0]

The pattern is that utility services are prefixed with AWS, while standalone services are prefixed by "Amazon".

Services prefixed with AWS typically use other services.

Not 100% accurate either, but only Amazon knows.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33134738
Is this like SARS or like flu ? SARS is no flu.

In the recent Joe Rogan podcast Elon Musk was talking about the need for more accurate data. The scientific facts seem blurry at the moment.

Watching the dutch news, the next steps seem to be a number of restrictions on the movements which seem sensible.
Doctors have to deal with even more virues and infections. What needs to happen is, how can people work efficiently with protective gear. There is simply no other way to work otherwise, assuming this is a serious infection.

The logical next steps would be to pass a law that forces each company to open work if they can give safety equipment to everyone and provides insurance / accurate assessments of the workers getting sick.

Cost cutting and avoiding liabilities is just pathetic at this point.
Well now you are comparing apples to oranges, terraform main focus is managing and provisioning infrastructure while ansible is more commonly used to do the actual instance provisioning and configuration.

In fact, Terraform + Ansible is a fairly common and powerful stack.